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...might be with them in December. The problem: How could a Republican President-elect and his key men, in the few weeks between election and inauguration, get a clear view of the vast, federal, bureaucratic jungle inhabited by 2,600,000 employees? One foresighted Ikeman, New York Financier Harold Talbott, a big G.O.P. fund raiser who will be Secretary of the Air Force in the new Administration, had an answer...
...months before either party had nominated its candidate, Talbott hired Manhattan's McKinsey & Co.. one of the nation's top management consulting firms, and gave them a broad directive to 1) find out exactly how many jobs the Republicans would need to fill to control all policymaking, 2) spell out the nature of each job and the qualifications required to fill...
After eliminating these 37, plus ten more who worked a straight 40-hour week (three of them were small-company men), Talbott took a look at what he had left-the 64 hard workers. They were almost all employees of large national corporations. Said Talbott: "They worked from 69 hours a week to as high as 112, and I mean all work." Most were in the office by 8, left at 6:30 with a pile of homework; when they went out to dinner (an average of three times a week), it was always on business...
...eager beavers, said Talbott, "dress better, as do their wives. Their offices are better run, their desks are neat, they can speak quietly and get action. For the most part they are better liked by their employees. The discipline is better, and so is the morale." They live well at home (all have maids), and better on the road. Their "manners are precise and good, while the small-time president is likely to spread a whole slice of bread." They take fewer sleeping pills and less alcohol, but "can sit down and have four drinks before dinner and never show...
...most such cases, it is not the wife who is doing the pushing to hard work. Said Talbott: "At least 75% of the wives who are married to hard workers are unhappy. They never see their husbands." In one month, Talbott checked on six executives who worked 90 hours a week. "In that month, and of that six, four got divorced." Unanimously, the wives agreed that they would prefer their daughters to marry "some kid with less ambition." But the hard workers themselves are much happier than the lazy ones. "If they had to choose between their wives and their...