Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning and improvisation what watchful anxiety and what adventure, lay on this frontier of the unknown! If there were no teachers anywhere to be found, then let young pioneers train themselves as teachers. If there was no teaching material in print, then it must be quarried out of the mine of current business practice and a Bureau of Business Research must be created. If no case books had yet been collected, business men could be induced by the persuasion...
...there still remained many skeptics among business men. There were some few who voiced their belief that the only training for business was acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first...
From the outset, therefore, we had no doubts as to the purpose and possibility of this professional school. It should seek to train business executives and be satisfied with nothing less. Otherwise it forfeits its right to stand on the same level with the older professional schools. Its graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating...
...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...
Next day he flew back to Lakehurst, the sacks under his eyes less baggy. Train took him to New York where the city gave him a hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...