Tom Walker wrote:
>
> 1. The French miracle: a shorter week, more jobs and men doing the ironing
> Official study finds that France's 35-hour week has boosted the economy and
> proved a hit with both employees and their bosses
>
> By John Lichfield in Paris 19 June 2001
>
> The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=78940
>
> "In the meantime, the 35-hour experiment had started to attract admiring
> glances from across the Channel.
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(1) I once had a 2nd line manager who was honest even if not humane.
He flat out said:
I want to see asses and elbows.
(2) I have long been impressed that no amount of hard work can make up
for a stupid or mediocre plan, whereas a really good plan, even
if implemented to only minimum level of quality will come out way ahead --
not to mention that bad plans *generate* more problems.
(3) After a person works a certain number of hours, they start
making retrograde progress as their error rate increases
and their mental alertness decreases, no
matter how good their intentions or how much they perspire.
--
Anyone remember the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company logo?
It shows the globe (yes, these people were taught to believe
that the earth is spherical even if in fact it is flat...) --
The Sherwin-Williams logo shows the earth-globe
with a huge can of paint above the North Pole. And the paint is
pouring out of the can over the earth. Their slogan is:
Cover the earth
I offer The Grand Unifying Theory hypothesis:
There is no problem so big or so complex that it
cannot be smothered under a sufficiently large quantity
of warm squirming bodies.
And that's why Garret Hardin was wrong.
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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