"The labor market needs to be made more flexible," said Sung Jin Hwang, managing director here of Warburg Pincus.
Zombies are nothing if not metaphorically flexible, something that the director said had contributed to the genre's historical popularity and recent resurgence.
"Management is recalibrating its relationship with labor, and changing it to be more flexible," said Barrie Peterson, associate director of Seton Hall University's Institute on Work in South Orange, N.J.
Highlight work on multidisciplinary projects and across departments, which shows that you are flexible, said Kathleen Yazbak, managing director at Bridgestar, which recruits executives for nonprofits.
"The best way to get what you want is to be flexible," said Gayle MacIntyre, director of marketing communications for the Web site LastMinuteTravel.com, which offers a wide range of travel services in all price ranges including flights, hotel rooms, package tours and cruises.
So she set up a home office in Westchester and found a more flexible position as a director of development for a coming PBS series called "Simple Living," which essentially teaches viewers to do the sort of things we're talking about here.
"It's powerful and flexible enough to allow directors to knit together professional-quality video with the equipment they already have on hand – from high-end cameras to audio gear to smartphones".
The handbook is careful to point out that considerations of death often need to be flexible (and suggests funeral directors and other groups that allow the mourners to craft the ceremony in ways they feel are best).
Nicholas Colaneri, director of the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University, explained that just because we have flexible displays does not mean we will have flexible devices in the marketplace for another few years.
"Truly bendable displays have other engineering challenges to solve just beyond making the screens bend," said Nick Colaneri, director of the flexible display center.
