Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...one knows how much his proposed National Health Insurance plan would cost; estimates range from $28 billion to $45 billion a year. For many years he urged Robin Hood-style tax "reform" and a closing of capital gains benefits, but he has not lately repeated that theme...
...looks like a schoolteacher, and he really wanted to become a political science instructor, but he drifted into Dad's Chevy dealership in Hopkins, Minn. So what can one expect from an auto salesman named...
...launched General Leasing Co., later abridged to Gelco. It grew big because Grossman had a further idea: don't just lease vehicles but also manage them, keep computer records on when each one needs a lube job or a tire change, when to trade it in for the best price. Companies tripped all over themselves to buy his service; it eliminated one more management migraine. He admits: "There is nothing we do that any one of our clients cannot do. But they cannot do it as inexpensively as we because we aim all of our services at a large...
...feels, will they produce ideas. "I cannot ever remember telling a manager, 'Now, you can't do this.' Instead, I might say, 'If I were doing it, I wouldn't do it your way. But I do not believe that there is just one right way to do something.' " There are times-not many-when a Gelco manager takes a risk and flops...
...revisionist belief: technology retards productivity by ultimately robbing people of creativity. "The new office technology is a step backward. The worker gets bored as hell with what he is doing. A person used to sit down and type a letter and identify with it. Now we put it into one big damn machine, change a few words and produce 100 or 1,000 different letters. We have dehumanized a lot of things...