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...personalities, she has every reason to have adopted some strain of diva behavior. "I am not a diva," she says. And she's not. Born to traditional-minded Asian parents and raised with what she jokingly calls "good Midwestern values," Wang says, she's "a worker." Her work ethic???few could argue?has paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aisles of Style | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...other hand, there are thousands of seniors this year who seemingly could not care less that few corporations sought their talents. The much-heralded New Consciousness of America's youth?including an indifferent attitude toward the Protestant work ethic?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Graduates and Jobs: A Grave New World | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic???hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There has been a steady and consistent reduction in the commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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