Guest host Budd Mishkin asks a management professor to explain how disorder can be good for everything from business to cooking. Later on, Rita Moreno stops by. Plus, this week’s Please Explain looks at why languages have different dialects.
A Perfect Mess
It may seem counterintuitive that disorder can lead to efficiency and success. But in A Perfect Mess, management professor Eric Abrahamson argues that messy systems can lead to better solutions and greater cost effectiveness than highly organized ones.
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A Conversation with Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno looks back on her distinguished career on Broadway, in Hollywood, and on television. And she looks forward to her current gig at the Café Carlyle.
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Events: Rita Moreno will be performing
Through Saturday, February 10th
Tuesday through Thursday, 8:45pm ($65 cover)
Friday through ...
Please Explain: Dialects
On today’s Please Explain, Doug Honorof, a linguist and dialect coach, and lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, Editor at Large for the Oxford English Dictionary, answer your questions about why languages have different dialects.
International Dialects of English Archives
International Dialects of English Archives
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