NO TIME TO WASTE. It's a blunt mandate, and not everyone has bought in. A former Denny's manager says many whites resented mandatory diversity training and felt they had to "bite their tongues" when black customers charged them with discrimination. Eight of Flagstar's 12 top executives--all white males--have left the company. Now, Adamson's management committee includes a Hispanic American male, two white women, and a black woman in a newly created position responsible for diversity initiatives. Adamson, the widely respected former Burger King Corp. CEO who arrived at Flagstar early last year, has set the tone. He recently fired off a letter to the local Greenville Newsprotesting its use of a stereotypical illustration of a black waitress. On employee resistance: "Some people just ain't savable, they won't get it, and I don't have time to waste on them."