An active role

Abstract

We don't keep portraits in boardrooms for nothing. Those beady eyes and whiskered chops are there to remind us of the values of our founding fathers and to keep those values intact. Once you know the date of origin of any organisation you already know a great deal about it — whether it is likely to be structured in the military style of the twenties, like an oil company, or in the freer Californian fashion of the early seventies like one of the new electronics firms. It's not that one style is better than the other but simply a matter of whose portrait was painted when.

Citation

(1983), "An active role", Facilities, Vol. 1 No. 5, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018672