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" America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world. "
Movement
Same
America
" At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it. "
Power
Management
Law
" At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water. "
Water
Tea
Meeting
" Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours. "
Star
Sun
Just
" Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people. "
Sometimes
Bad
Normal
" During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions. "
Management
Good
Look
" Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea. "
Planet
You
Own
" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "
Values
Happiness
Me
" Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor. "
History
Reading
Name
" George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. "
Order
Belief
Washington
" I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education. "
Meant To Be
Education
Understanding
" I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise. "
Degree
German
Philosophy
" If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day. "
End
End Of The Day
Day
" In business, experience is the big teacher. "
Big
Experience
Business
" In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on. "
Business
School
Strategy
" In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent. "
Management
Work
Check
" It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. "
History
Enlightenment
Look
" It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' "
Just
University
Idealism
" I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico. "
Business
Succeed
Year
" Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own. "
American
Start
Own
" Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file. "
Message
Information
Rhetoric
" Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science. "
Management
People
Most
" Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose. "
Purpose
Religions
Find
" Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion. "
God
Time
Nature
" One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results. "
Results
Anything
Name
" Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science. "
Science
Early
Philosophy
" The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true. "
Christian
True
History
" The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization. "
Yourself
Business
Brain
" There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing. "
Human
Rent
Real
" Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England. "
New York
Age
Born
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