Fogelberg, Wine, and Fast Planes

One wonders what the world is coming to these days, gone are the days, when business pep talks used to be held in musty old classrooms..... these days business executives sip "imported French wine 20,000 feet above Northland" whilst hearing a lecture on "how to motivate employees."

Gone are the days when the desires for money were the raison d'etre of the businessman.....for nowadays "many people......get their enjoyment outside the work place. Money "is not" the motivating force it once was."

Gone are the days when people followed the orders of their corporate bosses.... for no longer today are people prepared to follow decisions that they have not participated in."

Oh for the good old days when people chose a career for nowadays "young people" are "thumbing their noses at authority and choosing employment that offers "a certain way of life rather than a mere career."

Gone are the good old days when academics used to stand at the front of the lecture theatre terrifying hell out of their one hundred level students.... for nowadays businessmen tune "in on stereo headsets while" a Wellington academic "pacing up and down the aisles (of an Air New Zealand DC10 jumbo jet) with an extension microphone, as the big jet" circles at 510 MPH, delivers a lecture.

There is a new breed of businessman around if we are to believe a certain Wellington academic....there is a new style of lecturing around if we are to believe this report in a Wellington news-paper.....on first reading I thought this report was someone's idea of a practical joke.

Wine and drivel at 20,000 feet and 510 MPH ......but ill you go to a BUAD 102 lecture.....and a certain Wellington academic is delivering the lecture (he is such a busy person that his students rarely see him)....you will be sure to hear lots of wine and drivel.... it seems the old lecturing style is still reserved for the plebs in the Universities.