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<br />... <br /> <br />way toward the top. Companies tarnish their benign corporate images... either <br />by accident or design... with pOlicies that encourage unscrupulousness, that <br />force people to connive or lose momentum in the promotion pace. " <br /> <br />This shocking article, written by Harrison R. Johnson, continues: <br /> <br />'.- <br /> <br />"No doubt you know this only too well. You probably hold down your present <br />position because you jerked the rug from under someone in the past." <br /> <br />These are said to be the conclusions of a lengthy survey by the editors who talked to <br />more than a hundred men in all levels of management. <br /> <br />I n each interview, one key question was asked: "Is it possible for a man to move up <br />through the ranks of management solely by honest, decent methods?" <br /> <br />Companies didn't want to answer, Only after a lot of fancy footwork did they face the <br />issue squarely. The ov~rwhelming answer was "no, it is not possible!" <br /> <br />The author continued: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"We interviewed 18 men earning more than $20,000 a year. Sixteen admitted they <br />were guilty of shady practices. In the $10,000 to $20,000 bracket, 49 out of 58 said <br />their record wasn't clean and they intended to do more rug-pulling in the future. <br />This is in line with Leo Durocher's classic statement: Nice guys don't win!. <br /> <br />If this is an accurate picture of American corporate life today, then in the world <br />conflict with evil that we admit exists, we're licked. <br /> <br />But I don't believe it. I don't think the article is accurate. I don't think Leo <br />Durocher is right. I know all men are not honest, and all men are not gifted and all men <br />are not qualified. But I believe that our American process has the means to produce <br />throughfairness and impartiality the best leaders, If this isn't true, then generations of <br />decent citizens have wasted their time and talent and effort in creating a society which <br />predicated its existence on decency and ethics, and the principle of the golden rule. If the <br />article is accu rate, then Memorial Day is a farce, and a travesty. <br /> <br />The American Story is one of virtue triumphing; not evil being repaid with evil. <br /> <br />Today, we are willing to admit that it doesn't always work out that way, but the <br />challenge is to make it work right. Carlyle, I think it was, who said: "Reform yourself and <br />you may'be sure there is one less rascill in the world." <br /> <br />I don't know how many read recently in the Saturday Evening Post the article by <br />former President Eisenhower, but when asked on what basis he selected men, it seems to me <br /> <br />- 23 - <br /> <br />