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...John Diebold spreads a week's worth of Wall Street Journals on the thick blue carpet of his Park Avenue office and jabs a forefinger at story after story. The headlines tell the real news about business today. They speak of all the new ethics rules, the multiplying Government regulations, tire recalls, affirmative action programs and the demands of environmentalists, feminists, unionists, minorities, politicians, employees, shareholders. Diebold makes his point: the rising demands of society are forcing businesses to respond and change...
...Diebold has earned a fortune promoting corporate change. Having coined the word automation while he was writing his M.B.A. thesis at Harvard, he set up a consulting firm when still in his 20s. He advised businesses how to deal with computers, opened offices of the Diebold Group around the world, wrote four books and was decorated with numerous honorary degrees and princely medals. Now, still boyish looking and wide eyed at 52, he has signed up 22 blue chips that pay his company fat fees to learn how to cope with change in society...
...customers include the likes of A T & T, IBM, GE, INA, Alcoa, Mead, Singer, Monsanto, Borg-Warner. Eight times a year their top powers-chairmen, presidents or vice presidents -get together for a day in Diebold's offices. In these meetings they exchange information on how their own companies are trying to anticipate and respond to the many minirevolutions in the country. Diebold preaches a message: "Don't wait for the activists to come forward. Go out and meet them at least halfway, and maybe more than that...
...Diebold's sessions corporate chiefs study the successes of other businesses in dealing with public issues and outside pressures. They look at the case of the food companies that set up the Food Safety Council, enlisted the help of a ranking aide to Ralph Nader and now mutually work to agree on a list of food products and additives that everybody could consider safe-before going to the great trouble and expense of putting them on the market. Diebold also has his clients study the National Coal Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental...
Nobel Laureate Samuelson addressed his pugnacious remarks to a forum of European and U.S. business leaders and economists at Harvard earlier this year. At the invitation of Management Expert John Diebold, the leaders had gathered to discuss new challenges to the role of profits in Western economies. Almost without exception, the speakers testified to the pressures and pinches now afflicting the profit system. In some instances, most notably Sweden, Socialist governments are levying confiscatory taxes on corporate profits and insisting upon huge contributions to pension funds, which in turn are being used to buy up the companies; "fund Socialism...