Word: foresight
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...Well, all morning we flew low over [the] beautiful coral islands [of the San Bias Indians] You can leave and visit them but you must get away before night. The old chief won't let you stop after dark. Due to his foresight they are the only 100 per cent pure Indians...
...failure, as one set forth last week. Criticizer and suggester was Wallace Brett Donham, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University. His views were set forth in a book called Business Adrift, to which Alfred North Whitehead, Harvard's topnotch philosopher, contributes an introduction "On Foresight...
...businessman who would rationalize into the future, Dean Donham's discussion of "Foresight and its Elements" sets forth a sane method of logic. But the meat of the book comes when he asks & answers this crucial question: "How can we as business men, within the areas for which we are responsible, best meet the needs of the American people, most nearly approximate supplying their wants, maintain profits, handle problems of unemployment, face the Russian challenge, and at the same time aid Europe and contribute most to or disturb least the cause of International Peace...
...introduction to "Business Adrift" there is used a chapter on Foresight, written by A. N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy. Its general tenor is towards making routine everywhere the basis of our social machine...
...recent book of Dean W. B. Donham '98. The name of this book, "Business Adrift", has a direct correlation with the subject of the speech. The volume, which appeared last week, was heralded as an important work in the business world. It is in general an appeal for foresight on the part of business and for a constructive policy on the part of capital in place of what are aptly described as so many rear-guard engagements...