[bvw]

Loyalty. Here is a clipping I have keep close to me from the Wall Street Journal, 22 Jul 1997:

BLIND DEVOTION WANTED?

Fully 86% of about 500 chief executives surveyed by Goodrich & Sherwood Associates, New York-based employment consultants said they value loyalty most in subordinates. Next -- and far down -- on the list of top-valued qualities were sense of humor, named by 6%; capacity for hard work, by 5%; and integrity, by 3%.

Of Corporate America's leader's in 1997, 86% demanded LOYALTY, only 3% demanded INTEGRITY.

Seems appropos to many things ...

[bvw]

"have keep" should be "have kept"

[Jim Cane]

Fully 86% of about 500 chief executives surveyed by Goodrich & Sherwood Associates, New York-based employment consultants said they value loyalty most in subordinates.

While the employer/employee relationship has often been adversarial through history (Especially at the behest of greedy unions), it seems lately that industry officers are demanding this loyalty in a way that reminds me of a man saying "nice doggy" to a faithful, aging black labrador while reaching around for a stick with which to beat it to death.

[Nick Danger]

Of Corporate America's leader's in 1997, 86% demanded LOYALTY, only 3% demanded INTEGRITY.

I interpret that as good news. That means that finding people with integrity is not a problem. Of all those 100,000 people we've hired, very, very few have turned out to be embezzlers or crooks. So we don't worry about that. What we worry about is the sumbitch we spend 9 years and $100,000 grooming for a regional manager slot, only to have him jump to Yoyodyne for a $5K signing bonus.