Word: lennons
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...hail Marx and Lennon--John Lennon, that is. Funky Business, published by a subsidiary of Britain's Financial Times newspaper, is probably the first business book to draw simultaneous inspiration from the father of communism as well as from one of the all-time great rock stars. Both iconic figures, the book notes, preached "Power to the people," but it has taken the global embrace of market capitalism to deliver the goods...
...Packard's revenues, they point out, is derived from products less than a year old. To succeed in such a high-velocity world, companies must take risks, accept and welcome failures and shun all things average, bland and safe. They must grab consumers by surprise--not unlike the songs Lennon and the Beatles wrote when they gained a stranglehold on pop charts...
...paint houses, sack groceries or wait tables; whatever needs doing and isn't getting done. The Harvard Corp's tasks might not be exactly like the Peace Corps. For instance, a village well dug by VES concentrators might periodically shoot out flame and speak in the voice of John Lennon, making village life difficult. But the idea is basically the same. Just like playing third base for the Chicago Cubs, there will be no opportunities to "win" or satisfy the need to "beat" other people or groups. The aim is service and not success...