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The modern tendency is to codify and systematize all management decisions. In the old British Empire, the upper class learnt the classics (as in, ancient myths
by FredPret 4y ago
The modern tendency is to codify and systematize all management decisions.
In the old British Empire, the upper class learnt the classics (as in, ancient myths) and were packed off to go rule the world. It didn’t go so badly (for Britain).
Perhaps we can combine the two - managers to study human nature, and then study the problem, and then use regular brainpower to come up with good solutions.
- gradschoolfail 4y agoIf your classics included the Greek ones, that probably led to the aristocrats getting shipped to their demise in WWI. There might have been something akin to single combat bwtween champions in India, but that was something probably too much to expect in Belgium.
- FredPret 4y agoThey were fighting in the infantry in every British war until then; it worked very well for a long time
- gradschoolfail 4y ago(: I guess you realized that they should have joined the nascent airforce— it was the last truish example of single combat between champions, one, ironically, enabled by technology—- the continental aristocrats did :) (eg Baron von R) (maybe they had a better-faith classical education, considering their generally more accurate transmission of the classic pronunciations) BTw Kerala supposedly.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_combat “ The Kerala practice was discontinued in the 19th century under the British Raj.”