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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Harleys in Harvard Business Review
- Message-ID: <BD.92Nov20083325@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:33:25 GMT
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
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- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
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- Another episode of motorcycles in the business press (yesterday
- I posted an article about Hells Angels in FORTUNE).
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- In the most recent Harvard Business Review (V. 70, No. 6,
- Nov.-Dec. 1992) there's an article entitled "The Case of the
- Temperamental Talent". Poor Ken was becoming a problem at
- work. He was brilliant, innovative, etc., etc. But lately
- his temper has gotten worse and worse. He apparently got drunk
- at the company picnic and insulted a number of people in the
- sales department. He was increasingly quiet and surly. He
- just trashed his office, throwing a chair at his CAD/CAM
- workstation. Then came the final straw. Says HBR:
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- Most bizarre of all, a few weeks ago, around the time
- Tidewater started implementing its reorganization plans,
- Ken began riding to work on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- And he replaced his sportcoat and tie with a leather
- jacket and t-shirt, like a latter-day Marlon Brando in
- _The_Wild_One_.
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- Is this the end for Ken? Read the current issue of Harvard
- Business Review to find out...
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- --
- Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH 03766
- bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu
- I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
- DoD # 0698
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