Many of the candidates, well pedigreed, extremely experienced and polished as they were, did not follow directions.
The one pedigreed reformer in the senior leadership, Russian Finance Minister Fyodorov , was in Washington at the time and was apparently taken completely by surprise.
Though he had a pedigreed background, Winston Churchill was very much the outsider, intensely distrusted and disliked by his own party and much of the public.
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Dinners at his house were a fraught mixture of desire and dashed hope as pedigreed bottles were opened and poured into glasses and down the kitchen sink.
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The total package candidate for me is someone who is not only skilled and well pedigreed, but can follow directions and seeks to give the employer what they expect.
"Gates demonstrated that the old-school model of an Ivy-league degree, or a pedigreed family, isn't a requirement for career success, " says Katy Piotrowski, author of The Career Coward's Guide to Changing Careers.
Despite a pedigreed cast, including Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, and a massive marketing campaign--not to mention a network bidding war to air the show--the newsroom comedy failed to find an audience.
The real Sexton Blakes were the pedigreed elite.
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In secular bull markets, on average, sell decisions are not as rewarding as hold decisions, as market valuations are expanding and even the second-rate dogs of the equity markets start looking like pedigreed cocker spaniels.
Whether it is a pedigreed oil painting of the family (in the best of cases, a Sargent) or a plucky image of oneself (perhaps a Warhol, but probably not a Freud), people love to keep representations of their relatives near at hand.
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