Thomas L. Mammoser

Latest by Thomas L. Mammoser in Chronicles

• Vital Signs

  May 1989

  The Restructuring of America

  Restructuring: that's one way the recent wave of take-overs, breakups, and buyouts of major US corporations has been described.

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• Correspondence

  September 1988

  Excellence Revisited

  A flyer plugging yet another "excellence book" hit my "in box" recently— another reminder of the infatuation of American business with the "pursuit of excellence." We passionately love success, just hate second place, and truly disdain failure.

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• Correspondence

  January 1987

  A New Bottom Line

  In his provocative book Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver offered some poignant observations regarding modern times. Western man, he wrote, has fallen prey to a "falsified picture" of the world, characterized by materialism and an egotism which assumes that "man's destiny in the world is not to perfect himself but to lean back in sensual enjoyment."

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