"self-imposed management mantra"--isn't that conundrum like?
Wirt, are you suggesting that managers would lie? And the lies lead to a lack of productivity? Confusion? Even apathy?  
How shocking! 
One would suppose that the reinvention of self includes defining that the truth is what you define it to be! How tautological!

>>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> 08/13 6:59 PM >>>
If you want to be a leader in today's world, let me offer you a trick in ONE
easy step:

     Step 1: Read Darwin -- or at least be able to quote one specific
Darwinian sentence.

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I gather that there is a great sense of instability out there in the world,
and as a result, a great uncertainty as to what to do next. The foolish
conclusion of this new self-imposed management mantra would be to assume that
you must constantly re-invent yourself and that what is past is no longer
prologue, nor even desirable.

Wirt Atmar