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...management." U.S. business often goes to extraordinary lengths to shield its failures. Next to early retirement with an extra-generous pension, the most common tactic is to move the failure to an impressive-sounding job that has no content. In fact, says Harvard Business Professor Abraham Zaleznik, he is "vice president of nothing." The man with a lofty title, a high salary and little to do may seem to be in an enviable position, but few enjoy it. "I have talked to many of them," says David Gleicher, a research executive at Arthur D. Little. "They are dying and they...
...true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There...
...voyages of A. L. Sammann are now history, but he dissipated look on A.L.s face isn't history. He really take these weekends seriously. The late pronunciations of Abe Zaleznik's name will make table talk for years. You should furnish everyone with the practically correct way, Abe. The way Chuckie Schroeder and Bruno Tiz to buzzing about their next term resident we are expecting great things from the dealers...
Dashing Don Royce says, in defense of his receding hair line, that it's consoling to know that he'll never be old and grey. Is Tom Mullin any relation to the comic character, Moon? Eager Abe Zaleznik gets our vote as the eagerest individual in the unit--a certain roomie of ours notwithstanding. Dante Maggiotto and DeLoretto get the nod as the eagerest...
Heard Shellenberger, Yermak, Young, and Zaleznik spent their usual Saturday night a la Hotel Avery. What's this about the girl that smokes cigarettes and chews gum at the same time...