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The ‘Learning Knights’ of Bell Telephone
- jakarta 16y agoHere is an article from 1955 that details more about what they read: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,861231,00.html http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,861231,00.html
- JanezStupar 16y agoThis kind of attitude of company towards employees is seldom seen nowadays, yes I'm sure that it was seldom or even unique in those days. But one would expect that this kind of behavior would be more common nowadays. It's one of those intangible things that "feel" right but are hard to prove (especially on quarterly basis). I firmly believe that just as great generals, great businessmen also need to be people with broad interests. A (great) leader needs to be firstly a philosopher, scholar, businessman, humanist,... and lastly a great warrior - I believe it was somewhere along these lines the way Sun Tzu described qualities of a great general.
- jbooth 16y agoBell shut the program down. An institution only needs a handful of actual leaders. But it needs thousands of middle managers. This program undermines that goal, so they shut it down. /me gets depressed and goes off to read Brave New World again.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoPolice departments tend to disqualify people who are too smart.
- daniel-cussen 16y ago"We need fewer drifting straws on the stream of American business, and more discontented thinkers who listen thoughtfully to both sides of our national debates." Both sides? How narrow-minded.