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- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:25:28 -0400
At 01:26 PM 10/13/00 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Leadership is the most important issue, not employer.
>That is why I suggest people re-read the Federalist
>Papers. Not to adopt the philosophy or means,
>but to understand how individuals can overcome
>the mass mentality of populist rhetoric to
>ensure that the system which emerges is workable.
Ah, but don't forget to get over the mass mentality of corporate rhetoric
to ensure that the system which emerges is equitable.
You tilt consistently one way, I tilt consistently the other. Hopefully
the list isn't bored by now.
>I point out Ben Franklin as an example of means
>that are often more subtle than a flaming zealot
>can ever manage. A guy with a match and a loaded pipe
>and can do quite a lot with a room full of arguing
>hot heads.
Except, of course, in that minor dispute between the hotheads of England
and the hotheads of America, where he wasn't noted for any lack of zealotry.
Simon St.Laurent
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