Chapter 12. EPILOGUE

 

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as man.

 
 --C. Wright Mills[304]

Laughter is one thing that struck me about people practicing radical management. I don't know whether it's a truly universal characteristic, but it certainly is pervasive. Of course, I also saw periods of intense concentration and moments of dismay and alarm. But laughter was never far away. It could not be suppressed for long. It would break out in quips and cracks, a bond between those joined together in pursuing something worthwhile. Sometimes it was dark humor, even gallows humor in the face of impending disaster, but the laughter was always close to the surface, ready to explode at ...

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