Brent Cartier, Manager for Special Projects in the Materials Department of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company's Vancouver Division, clicked off another mile. It had been a long week and it looked like it would be a long weekend as well, based on the preparation that needed to be done for Monday's meeting with Group Management on worldwide inventory levels for the DeskJet Printer product line. Even when he was busy, he always took the time for the seven-mile bike ride into workit helped reduce stress in times like this