COMMUNICATION FLOW — WHICH DIRECTION?
I recently have been reading Henry Trewhitt’s McNamara: His Ordeal In The Pentagon (Harper and Row, 1971 pp. 12, 13). In it I found this story which illustrates the problem Christ must have had with the establishment of his day who didn’t understand the direction the real communication flow was supposed to go. Trewhitt writes of the early days of McNamara at the Department of Defense: At lower levels, McNamara sponsored a group of young intellectuals who ultimately caused more fuss than those at higher ranks. These were the “Whiz Kids,” a term carried over from McNamara’s own management group at Ford, so called because of their self-assured disrespect for tradition as they ranged happily among the sacred cows of the Pentagon. The group included Alain C. Enthoven, thirty, dark and intense, towering in both physique and intellect, an economist who earlier, at RAND, had specialized in strategy and strategic weapons. Enthoven did not lack self-confidence, and one often…
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