title: The New Paradigm in Business (New Consciousness Reader)
author: Michael Ray
description: This book consists of 29 essays that effectively address the concerns of business leaders as they contemplate the future. Contributors include academicians, practitioners, and entrepreneurs who offer a wealth of valuable insights and present new and creative ways to approach such problems as ethical values, competition, employee issues, leadership, marketing, environmental concerns, and strategic planning. Included are examples of companies that have applied these ideas. Although these topics are covered in other business publications, the approach and level of coverage are unique and important for practitioners and management students. Recommended for larger collections.<BR><I>- Grace Klinefelter, Ft. Lauderdale Coll., Fla.</I><BR>Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Business Man
  
  
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  Method is the soul of business.—OLD SAYING.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all.
  But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who
  prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter,
  and violating its spirit. These fellows are always doing the most out-of-the-
  way things in what they call an orderly manner. Now here, I conceive, is a
  positive paradox. True method appertains to the ordinary and the obvious
  alone, and cannot be applied to the outre. What definite idea can a body
  attach to such expressions as "methodical Jack o' Dandy," or "a systematical
  Will o' the Wisp"?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My notions upon this head might not have been so clear as they are, but for a
  fortunate accident w