(FORTUNE Magazine) – VICTOR H. PALMIERI, 62, turnaround artist brought in by New Jersey regulators to rehabilitate crippled Mutual Benefit Life Insurance: ''Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail. The problem is, there is never a child in the boardroom.''

ALLAN GILMOUR, 57, executive vice president of Ford Motor: ''Product development time is going to be a great competitive battleground in the 1990s -- as intense, I would say, as the revolutionary push for quality in the Eighties.''