European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                New yorkers let others do it for them by Melissa Sones United press International if they can help it. Man hallanies Don t Wal Kihler own dogs pick up their own newspapers Cook Ihler own meals clean or decorate their own apartments. Given the Opportunity they do very Little themselves. You just Gal a convenience Rush make it Nappen mentality said a new York management consultant who has somebody Cut her hair at Home sends messengers to pick up and deliver everything irom business correspondence to birthday cards and has hired someone to organize her Home office and do her clothes shopping. My husband used to tease me she said. Of is this the closet person or the lie Cabinet person like other Don to do it yours Elfers. The management consultant who asked to remain Anonymous did t Start out that Way. In fact when she moved to new York from Philadelphia she found die Altitude shocking. Since then she s seen the error of her ways. It s just very new York she explained. Among Many things new yorkers Don t do is find their own mates. Personals columns Are popular All Over but no City a better equipped to grasp he notion of ordering someone and having him or her delivered. Meals Are Adon a do to yourself tradition in new York. Within walking distance of most residential buildings Are dozens of restaurants that will deliver some until 1 a.m., Deli chinese Indian mexican tax mex Dalian. Greek and health cod As Well As steaks and chops burgers and Fries and pizza. The local Haagen Daz ice Cream shop will bring subs Chocol alb Almond h your door. The fruit stand will drop off Kiwi or Grapefruit 24 hours a Day. Ditto for the chocolate Chip cookie end dial dessert places and quor store. If you insist on cooking you no Tonger have to shop for yourself. Supermarkets have just begun letting Don to do it yourself Era phone in lists rather than selecting in hems in person and requesting delivery. The most fashionable do a Tor you person helps you work off your meal. The personal Trainer onco the mainstay of Profesa Lonai. Auit otes and prizefighter will  everything but pump the Iron for you and most important Mak Nous Caba. The worst iting about joining health clubs after All is having to walk to them. Then alter the Trainer leaves the masseuse comes Over. In a . With he proper plants. The Iren last Job title in town consultant proves the Don a doll yourself Point. Whatever Challenge confronts you be it breaking up with your current flame telling off your Boss or accountant entertaining friends or business associates planning a wedding sending a birthday gift dressing for Success or filling up your file folders there s someone to do it for you. Maw yorkers often explain their hire somebody behaviour by claiming to be Busy. Too buoy to Cook pick up their own dry cleaning deliver a message in Parson rear their own kids drive their own cars plan Ihler own vacations arid write Ihler own letters never mind laying a carpet building a Cabinet or fixing Tow car. Fact is though doing it yourself just in t part of the lifestyle Al least if you re successful which is after All Why those who Don t do it Hern moves move to now York in the first place. Do creative thinkers have happier brains by Larry Doyle United press International Hether a person is typically Happy or sad May have a lot to do with what Side of the brain he does his thinking with according to a researcher. Creative people so called right brain thinkers exhibit activity Paterra in their brains thai May make them More Likely to be optimistic extroverted and Happy than analytical left brain  said Wendy holler a  at the University of Chicago. The brain patterns Are present from a very Early age and  a person s characteristic moods. Heller said. What we re making Here is really a sort of sweeping claim that the characteristic activation in your brain affects both the cog Nellve functions that you re Good at and your Overall tendency to be Happy extroverted outgoing optimistic etc.," Heller said. A March hat found that High activity in the ten frontal lobe of the brain is associated with a pleasurable mood while High activity in the right frontal lobe is associated with a negative mood. However the anti Yatson pattern in the Back of the brain in the parietal Region is reversed hew said. A person who is Happy for example has High activity in the left frontal lobe pleasure along with High activity in the right parietal Region arousal. A person who is depressed would Nave opposite activation Levels which might explain Why they also tend to be sluggish Heller said. Heller said he activation patterns determine whether a person is More spatially or verbally oriented and map quite nicely with differences ingrain use by right and left hemisphere thinker. People who Are optimistic tend to do Batter on visual spatial tasks relative to verbal tasks we be seen thai in our teb she said. People it tend to to pessimists Don t show this pattern and land to do better on verbal tasks which Are the specially of the \ Toft posterior regions of the  she sold her mod attributes the Valence or direction of the emotion Ullh activity in the frontal lobes while the arousal level is dictated by activity in the parietal Region. This Model could have important Imp Catton in for example depression could be treated by. Attempting to rain activity level in the left fron of the by Aln exec pm seer is to do this she said. " we re really jus looking at the neurological evidence in a psychological framework she said. Heller presented her theories Al a symposium on the three Day symposium sponsored by the Harris Center for developmental studies atthe. University of Chicago was the first to bring together scientists from varied Fields to discuss , holler s paper was one of several at the symposium discussing recent neurological findings Ink Iraq emotions to activity in different parts of the brain. Career women slam management United press International Survey of thousands of american career women show shockingly High numbers who complained about serious problems in How their companies Are managed. The 7,800 women did not necessarily have problems with Ihler Bosses or earn less than their ,. Renste counterparts the october Issue of working to Stamen Magazine said. E but almost two thirds 66 percent said their companies Are managed on a crisis basis. More than half 53 percent rated management poor or terrible mop Dino to faults of the eur Quelton Survey. I i Vera. Shockingly High numbers of women report ,. Venous problem in How their companies Are so swaged the Magazine reported i the Famitta women s issues of corporate be. Employment the salary Gap the Glass ceiling on advancement the inflexibility about family needs and sexual harassment show up in the Survey but they Pale in comparison to the greatest problem. The answers to the questions we asked about management practices and corporate culture reveal a Stream of discontent running deep and wide through american business the article reported. Survey answers Many accompanied by letters complained about bad communication skills and failure to prioritize toy corporate leaders. Our office administrative team runs on True crisis  said a 35-year-Okj records supervisor in Phoenix. I am currently running four departments on teas than half Alyff because of  women responding to the Survey were mostly managers or professionals with a mean income of $26.629. One it Taam Over we Max putting the Man the top 3.5 pet tit of employed  the Magazine said. They slammed top management for  j mean in the trend toward lean and  working woman reported a majority of r said. Management does a poor Job of setting pal percent " " " companies  make employees to aaindividuals�5percent management assigns unreasonable work loads percent. " paperwork and red tape Are w percent. V the surly Efti acid nearly Elihe with their Imron f the women a afr saturday october 4, 1986 the staff iqfrripe8