As 2009 starts and we prepare to move to Aus, I can't help but be struck as I look ahead how much will remain the same. Sure there is much less crime, but the meaningless, pointless work continues: sell, rent, machines rust. Make an impression on new company, don't make an impression. The posturing continues. No different to an anthill in many ways until I can get rid of this what HDT called 'incessant business'. Always amused at the business 'power' brokers and movers and shakers in business - not that dedication to business is not impressive, but that they can't see how pointles it is and they actually think it means something. People say my perspective will change when I have kids this year. Will it? Ants work and work, raise offspring and work to feed and secure them and then die. Still don't see a difference, to be honest.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them. (Robert Menzies)
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