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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Arthur Figgis
Date: Sep 3, 2008 00:10

Fod wrote:
> On 3 Sep, 06:44, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:22:52 +0100, John Wright wrote
>>
>>
>>
>>> We don't teach how to manage properly - or how to lead. It must be
>>> possible to do it to some degree otherwise we would never have won WWII.
>> We had a decent Public School system which had evolved over many hundreds of
>> years specifically to churn out leaders for the Army and the empire.
>>
>> A traditional public school education - with a formal hierarchy of prefects,
>> fagging and discipline - was, essentially, the apprenticeship for running an
>> empire and winning wars.
>
> would you say that was what produced the leadership in the US and
> Russian armies during WWII?

Perhaps it was the lack of it which produced the leadership in the USSR?

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK
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