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...There's one dean here that's had a lot of academic training, but not much business experience," another AMP complained. "He's used to handling men of stature in business like undergraduates. They fight back too. When you're in a group this size you have to fight to keep your identity. They're polite about it, but they fight back the same...
...feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...
...qualify for the program, an executive is first chosen from the ranks of his own firm. Some companies use the AMP sessions as training periods for men they desire to promote to higher jobs. For the executive, company sponsorship can be the touch of the sword-promotion--and it is not lightly regarded. Over half the class is earmarked for a specific promotion before they take the course. They fall into the amalgam of controllers, assistant treasurers, sales managers, and production engineers labeled "middle management" and the course prepares them for "top management...
...awareness that the man seleced to participate is the man "on his way up." William Whyte, in The Organization Man, remarked on the jealousy among a chosen executive's contemporarys. "At General Foods, we know that something is in line for a man when he comes here," said one AMP, "In my case, I was promoted before the course. This happens to be the best time for me to come...
...must weed out a few applications in order to reach a class size of one hundred and fifty. Working on a concept of "the best class possible," the committee divides applicants according to their function within a corporation, the size of the comany and geographical location. This fall's AMP class has 130 Companies represented (43 of them participating for the first time), 30 states, and 18 foreign countries. The average age of participating executives is 43.9 years...