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| Author: | Farnham, A. |
| Title: | Are you smart enough to keep your job? |
| Journal: | Fortune
1996 : JAN 15, VOL. 133:1, p. 20-21 |
| Index terms: | MANAGERS TEAM WORK ECONOMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author tells the story: "When I graduated from Harvard College as an ostensibly smart guy, I discovered that I did not know how to make change. This was brought to my attention when I got a job selling cigars and pipes in a tobacconist's shop. I understood subtraction and addition okay... in the abstract. But when confronted with a cash register and a testy, foot-tapping customer, sapience fled. My boss did not fire me; he pitied me. The Angel of Duh passed over, and I lived to make change another day..." |
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