That's another buzz word/phrase whose originator should have been beaten with an axe handle."keepin' it real"
That's another buzz word/phrase whose originator should have been beaten with an axe handle."keepin' it real"
Me too. We Also had to copy entire pages out of a huge dictionary. That was torture!
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Our school had the novel idea of making you write on a subject which you could do with improvement on:On a similar subject. I just heard on the BBC radio news, that the speaker of the UK House of Commons ordered the education minister to write 1000 lines during Prime Ministers Question time! (I think with tongue in cheek), but rather ironic as this education minister only recently suggested that schools toughen up behavior problems by bringing back writing lines and having more detentions. (I found being given lines when I was at school very tedious indeed.)
Yeah...and somehow we survived and weren't scarred for life.
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Well, I think it all comes down to an interesting point -- one thing that seems to be constant thruout the past hundred and fifty years is that to make it to the top of the business world you have to be an individual of no moral scruples whatever. Obscuring your sins thru philanthropy is an old, old stunt -- but we don't seem to be as skeptical about it nowadays as we used to be.
I question your premise. Having read the biographies of dozens of business leaders, my impression is that the most successful were also the most honest, and had the greatest ability to attract and motivate smart talented people. They could be tough when it was called for but that is not where they made their money.
Yes, sometimes instead of having to write lines, we had to copy out several pages from text books too, or write out very long essays, or do hard maths, without calculators, which were only just coming onto the market when I was at school and we were not permitted to use them in maths lessons, nowadays they seem to be allowed to which seems to be rather illogical. If we were given detention to do these impositions in, these could last from a minimum of 30 minutes, but 1 - 2 hours was more normal, longer sometimes if we had a half day holiday, or had to do a Saturday morning detention.
Our school had the novel idea of making you write on a subject which you could do with improvement on:
To this day, I can quote lengthy tracts of Shakespeare, word perfect. You won't believe how many times I wrote out scenes from The Merchant of Venice.
The Christian Brothers of Ireland usually meted out direct discipline with a razor strop or fist,
but I recall writing lines of Shakespeare and Saturday detentions, called "jug."
I have to admit that these methods were not necessarily pleasant but were effective.
Do you have a positive opinion of anybody? I could name a few big businessmen of the past who do not fit your template in any particular.
One that comes to mind is George Mason of the Nash-Kelvinator corporation. When Charlie Nash was planning his retirement he asked around among his old friends in the industry like Walter Chrysler and Al Sloan, if they could recommend a good man for CEO of Nash. One name that came up several times was George Mason who had recently taken over running the Kelvinator refrigerator company. Nash was impressed by his business ability and said later there were 2 things that struck him with particular force. The first was that he turned the Kelvinator company around, from a near bankrupt concern to a thriving enterprise. This in itself was not so unusual, but he did it in the worst depression the US had ever seen. The second thing was that he didn't fire anybody. The same management and executive team that could not succeed without him, turned in an outstanding performance under his leadership.
One other thing. Mason was an ardent fisherman and during his lifetime, bought thousands of acres along the Au Sable river for the fishing. On his death he left the property to the Boy Scouts of America along with $25000 to pay for the fish he had taken out.
They don't make them like that anymore.
Do you have a positive opinion of anybody? I could name a few big businessmen of the past who do not fit your template in any particular.
One that comes to mind is George Mason of the Nash-Kelvinator corporation. When Charlie Nash was planning his retirement he asked around among his old friends in the industry like Walter Chrysler and Al Sloan, if they could recommend a good man for CEO of Nash. One name that came up several times was George Mason who had recently taken over running the Kelvinator refrigerator company. Nash was impressed by his business ability and said later there were 2 things that struck him with particular force. The first was that he turned the Kelvinator company around, from a near bankrupt concern to a thriving enterprise. This in itself was not so unusual, but he did it in the worst depression the US had ever seen. The second thing was that he didn't fire anybody. The same management and executive team that could not succeed without him, turned in an outstanding performance under his leadership.
One other thing. Mason was an ardent fisherman and during his lifetime, bought thousands of acres along the Au Sable river for the fishing. On his death he left the property to the Boy Scouts of America along with $25000 to pay for the fish he had taken out.
They don't make them like that anymore.