"They've got plenty of room to make their numbers with all the cost-cutting and post-merger streamlining," says Brady, "but that's not growth, it's a one time event".
In the interview, Mr. Page also explained the move as an effort to streamline, saying the three had selected him as the top decision-maker because of "the pace of decision-making and the scale of the company".
The decision making process is streamlined, says Klein. "We are optimizing our process for due diligence and legals.
ANC expects to save millions of dollars by streamlining operations, said Lawrence J. Ramaekers, ANC's president and chief operating officer, who is directing the ANC reorganization effort.
"It reflects a woman who is definitely streamlining herself," said Daniel Harris, who wrote "The Content of Women's Purses," an essay published in 1995 in Salmagundi, a literary magazine.
On view, for instance, is a silvery 1946 sled with an aircraft-type nose cone, a 1936 sled inspired by the Zephyr train and a 1937 tricycle that represents "the first generation of streamlining," Mr. Shear said.
This top-down streamlining, he said, was a response to his own experience as a junior official, "sitting through endless, agonizingly stupid meetings where everybody just kind of goes round and round and round and nothing ever happens," as he put it.
Full body but streamlined, Hesser said.
"The smaller group is a workshop to get our compositions evolved and streamlined," he said.
