June 3, 2008

The Winkler Way—Okay?

Via CJR
The Winkler Way—Okay?
With Bloomberg News at a crossroads, an audience with its maximum leader
By Dean Starkman

I am deep inside Bloomberg LP’s global headquarters, the Lexington Avenue office of the financial-information giant,

With its post-modernist design—sweeping interior vistas, bristling clusters of computers, oversized screens blinking up-to-the-minute sales figures, streaming stock tickers, TV studios, financial radio chatter in various languages, swoopy futuristic red couches, puzzling art—it conveys a sense of energy, power, certainly, but mostly, for me, of self-containment. The free bananas, breakfast cereals, energy bars and coffee available near the elevators on Level Six do nothing to detract from the sensation that this is a place where all biological needs are provided for. You can leave, but you don’t have to and it’s not encouraged.

>Read the rest at CJR.

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