The main thing--the main thing I'm saying is, that an organization which has a multiple, not-apparent purpose would probably be very successful. You get a business manager, he's a pretty good promoter. He hires a few salesmen around town to go around evenings, and they simply sell memberships and back up the hearse--or whatever else they do to sell memberships--and they get names on the Survival Club pledges and the USA clubs are sold to them and--the membership--and they'll get out from under … [Read more...] about Lecture: Creating a Third Dynamic (1957)
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Lecture: Rugged Individualism (1955)
You walk into a government agency and you give them any problem that is related to that agency but is not exactly right in the middle of the paragraph that tells it what it could do and it won't have a single thing to do with it. So you go over to another agency and they look in the middle of the paragraph which tells them what they can do, and if your problem isn't in the middle of that paragraph — and maybe your problem lies dead between these two agencies — it'll never be done. You know … [Read more...] about Lecture: Rugged Individualism (1955)
Lecture: The Emotional Curve (1952)
All right, air-raid warning. In come these old, obsolete five-hundred-mile-an-hour planes. These things come in, the air raid warning system goes up, everybody grabs their helmets, they grab their first-aid kits, they walk out into the street, the people powder their noses a second time, go out of the nightclub in an orderly fashion. They walk down the steps into the shelters, the air-raid siren is finally sounded again. And they run the trucks out and they get the ladders all fixed and they get … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Emotional Curve (1952)