So much so is this the case that financial analysts, who are the counterpart of employment placement centers, are sometimes called upon for assistance to make the move easier. Management is passing into the hands of professional managers; likewise financial investment is passing to an increasing degree into the hands of professional investors, and a …
May 21st ~ You have the flash of understanding, that extraordinary rapidity of insight, when the mind is very still, when thought is absent, when the mind is not burdened with its own noise. So, the understanding of anything–of a modern picture, of a child, of your wife, of your neighbor, or the understanding of …
Wilfred Brown, chairman of a large industry in Britain, who has written quite extensively on management and organization from the point of view of a practicing manager, has said: “One of the features of each of these role systems that they possess very considerable power, vis-a-vis the company. The . . . systems are …
May 22nd ~ You and I realize that we are conditioned. If you say, as some people do, that conditioning is inevitable, then there is no problem; you are a slave, and that is the end of it. But if you begin to ask yourself whether it is at all possible to break down this …
Will is the urge in everything toward self-actualization. Everything is pressing out toward being itself to the fullest. Everything seeks to express itself. This self-expression rises through interaction of what we shall call structure and process. It also arises through two trends: one toward the center and the other toward the periphery; one toward greater …
May 23rd ~ To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum; experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction? You will say that …
In industry, “growth” commonly means but one things: to get bigger. Success is equated with size, rationalized as economy of scale, and projected as a national faith through the G.N.P. index. Hollywood, Broadway, General Motors, and more recently the conglomerates are the result. A balloon, as it is blown up, gets bigger–but this is not …
May 24th ~ All thinking obviously is conditioned; there is no such thing as free thinking. Thinking can never be free, it is the outcome of our conditioning, of our background, of our culture, of our climate, of our social, economic, political background. The very books that you read and the very practices that you …
Classical organization theory suggests that there is “the company” and that there is “change,” and these two are in some way in opposition. Monolithic organizations have been set up with the view that the company acquires significance through its stability. Emphasis has been put on the hierarchical structuring, and a tendency toward “power structuring” has …
May 25th ~ Does not the urge of the mind to free itself from its conditioning set going another pattern of resistance and conditioning? Having become aware of the pattern or mold in which you have grown up, you want to be free from it; but will not this desire to be free conditioning the …