Word: gamesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unit managers, who carried greenbacks by the briefcase to pay bills for travel, lodging, food and miscellaneous production costs, were not content with garden variety expense-account gamesmanship. They padded payrolls, cashed in unused airline tickets and accepted kickbacks from caterers, hotel managers and equipment salesmen. "Organized dishonesty," Griffiths told stockholders...
Senator William Proxmire last week gave the study his Golden Fleece Award for "the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic waste of taxpayers' money." Van den Berghe, the author of Academic Gamesmanship, professed to be pleased, saying: "My reputation in the academic community will be enhanced...
...President John F. Kennedy '40--and who stayed on to overanalyze the country into its most agonizing decade. Sound business tactics and calculated risks brought America into Vietnam and Cambodia, riots and recessions, and then into the Age of Nixon. Perhaps that last agony was America's reaction against gamesmanship, a return to the happy days of Commie-hunting and jungle-fighting. But the game was not over, even after the purge. And it is still going on now, not only in the posh executive offices and conference rooms, but down in Washington, where it is played to the accompaniment...
...between functional management--running an organization--and general management, which involves integrating objectives into broader policies. The latter method appears to be the Kennedy School's objective, training generalists, who, like the omnicompetent Confucian scholars who ran ancient China, are capable of flexible decision-making as well as bureaucratic gamesmanship...
...Toys and Reasons. When Erikson describes how seeing Rembrandt's Annunciation in California's DeYoung Museum led him to new and exciting thoughts about the role of perspective in establishing identity, he probably overestimates the general appeal of these insights. And when he rejoices over the spirit of gamesmanship that went into the founding of America and the Constitution, and goes on to praise the "leeway" that American society has allowed for people to test their psycho-social potential, in his excitement he seems to ignore the fact that American society has also deprived whole classes and races...