At 7 a.m., 10 senior Sears executives gather in a sixth-floor conference room in Hoffman Estates for a daily meeting — or, as some refer to it, a "daily beating" — with Edward "Eddie" Lampert.
Via teleconference from his home base in Greenwich, Conn. (and, at least one time, via a call from his yacht in Italy), the famously mercurial Sears...
