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...company after graduation through a summer game in which each player "runs" an imaginary plant producing "synthetic granules and bulk-oil food products." General Electric has six games going under such ear-shocking titles as Uniflo, Inven-trol and Dispatch-0. "It's really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing without human beings, the bet-er you'll do." Not to be outdone, competing Westinghouse has its own game, oo. "But," says its training director, [. C. McKeon...
...time their freshman year had come to a close, the members of the Class of 1911 were beginning to adjust to the life of the College. Only a very small number left the class at the end of its first year...
...biggest management mistakes result from the bad habits incidental to the technique that made U.S. industry great: mass production. Geared to building products that could always be fixed up with a spare part-or, at worst, replaced-management has found it hard to adjust to building custom products that must work perfectly the first time. Building a missile or a satellite, says Boeing's Ball, "is like building a television set that will operate four hours a day for 500 years without an adjustment.'' For such a job, asserts the Harvard Business School's Pro fessor...
Learn Now, Adjust Later. Begun three years ago, 3R has grown from 28 pupils to 335 in its Spartan, unpainted, concrete, one-story building north of San Francisco. Flooded with applications, it already has a new branch in Calistoga. plans another in Santa Rosa. Within seven years it expects to have 15 schools in the Bay area, is even mulling over the idea of a 3R chain of schools across the country, like motels...
...little Groton or Eton. This is for kids, rich and poor, who want to learn. And what do we teach that's so damned unusual? Only the classics-reading, writing and arithmetic, the tools a human being needs to survive. We tell them not to worry about 'adjusting.' Get the tools first, and then you can adjust...