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- LETTERS, Page 10Working Lean and Mean
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- Every manager should reflect on the points made in your
- special report about the missing gung-ho spirit among American
- workers and the ebbing loyalty to the corporation (BUSINESS,
- Sept. 11). Shrewd bosses realize that employees who perceive
- that their security and participation are aligned with the
- company's productivity and profitability will take risks on the
- firm's behalf. While temporary staffing has an important place,
- the concept that a manager can "rent" a professional work force
- that is able to expand and contract on demand does not recognize
- the time required to cultivate an atmosphere of mutual support.
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- B. Kenneth Estabrook Jr. Woodsboro, Md.
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- Don't assume that the "turmoil" being experienced by the
- current work force is a negative thing. Maybe companies are
- finally waking up to the needs of being competitive in the
- world marketplace. If, to cure U.S. employees of complacency and
- make American business viable again, a small amount of
- temporary turbulence must be endured, so be it.
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- Mark Wilamowski, President Mardon, Inc. Fort Wayne,
- Ind.
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- Your article reads like a chapter out of my past, but it
- fails to mention the effect of career transition on family. At
- an outing with my daughter's kindergarten class, a boy asked me,
- "Mr. Hemingway, have you got a job yet? Sometimes Erin is very
- sad because you don't have one."
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- Frank C. Hemingway Federal Way, Wash.
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