Even the venerable skill of making new year's resolutions has grown rusty from disuse.
She spoke to Apolitical about how to alter the character of a huge and venerable institution, what skills are required by the new breed of public servants and what she learned on her own long progress up through the ranks.
A "sink or swim" approach to teaching important skills has a venerable history in medical education [ 24], and indeed most students ultimately do manage, but there can be significant costs.
Arsenault's delightfully clever first novel revolves around the fusty offices of a venerable dictionary publisher and showcases the research skills of two young lexicographers who discover clues to an unsolved murder in the citation files.
Mr. Li, a Chinese-born filmmaker who has lived in Japan for much of the past 20 years, intersperses visits with Mr. Kariya throughout this long, engrossing documentary; the swords this venerable craftsman makes are beautiful, and the skill and tradition that go into their manufacture are inspiring.
After all, say critics, many of those responsible for poor boardroom performance were graduates of venerable business institutions, and were, presumably, putting into practice the skills they learnt in their lecture theatres.It is a charge that Colin Mayer, dean of Saïd Business School at Oxford University, declares he does not take lightly.
Two floors below Mr. Little's office, those skills are being applied to, of all things, the venerable locomotive.
Bezos is investing in a venerable institution with dicey economics, and will attempt to leverage his skills at digital disruption to reinvent it for the 21st century.
That venerable magazine's masthead still lists him as Editor Emeritus, but there's nothing emeritus about his editing skills, which he now applies to the book manuscripts of authors whose publishers are lucky (and flush) enough to obtain them.
