The single biggest factor in the success of any business, or nation, is its human capital – the flair, talent and productivity of its workers.
But this managerial concept minimised the fact that war is a skilled human activity demanding flair, intuition and a knowledge of the enemy.
In this book Ian Ayres, a professor of law and management at Yale University, explains how in many less high-profile endeavours, human intuition and flair are more easily beaten.
The talented South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho directs his monster and humans with equal flair.
One could make the point that the Olympics are nothing more than overrated television filler during the dog days of August, with admirable athletes performing rarely seen sports, with a flair of human interest.
Diane Lane, Joel Grey, Tavi Gevinson, and Chuck Cooper headline the Roundabout's revival of "The Cherry Orchard" (starting previews Sept. 15, at the American Airlines Theatre), newly adapted by Stephen Karam, who proved his Chekhovian flair with "The Humans".
As these human lives collide, James displays real flair for unmasking her characters, with all their foibles and benevolence, but it is the elephant who is the novel's unquestionable star.
Along with ventricle enlargement, FLAIR-MRI of elderly human brains consistently reveals age-associated periventricular edema (Leys et al., 1990), suggesting that transependymal bulk flow is compromised.
He has a novelistic flair for describing his fellow humans.
He has become known in Germany as the human face at the negotiating table, with a flair for pulling solutions out of a hat.
