I’m re-reading William Whyte’s beauty titled, Organization Man. On page 71, William describes his research regarding what kinda jobs college seniors are looking for. I pick up his writing in the third paragraph. “When I talk to students in ______, on almost every campus I heard one recurring theme: adventure was all very well, but it was smarter to make a compromise in order to get a depression-proof sanctuary. ‘I don’t think AT&T is very exciting,’ one senior put it, ‘but that’s the company I’d like to join. If a depression comes there will always be an AT&T.'”
And there is the answer to why so few pursue their opus and so many end up laboring in vain, albeit the luck ones are at least highly paid while doing so. Oh yeah, the blank could be filled in almost any year, could it not?FACT.
The actual year? 1949.
We are not making much progress are we, my friends. We are continuing to manufacture college grads who are mindlessly going through the motions, mindlessly selecting a major, mindlessly getting a job, and mindlessly moving on to another until mindlessly they can’t wait for the last subway station to arrive and mindlessly, safely, step off.
Opus is the one you want. The next generation is watching. Are you mindlessly following the corporate way of the organization man or becoming your own? You choose. Your choices have consequences. Good…
BUILT TO LEAD 