The Boston Herald’s Jay Fitzgerald has an entertainingly unoriginal story today. Here’s the lead:
A San Diego blogger has already proved that many of Raytheon chief William Swanson’s “Unwritten Rules of Management” had previously been written down in a 1944 book.
Now it turns out other folksy business adages in Swanson’s booklet were also previously written — by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and newspaper humorist Dave Barry.
Are there no new rules out there?
Speaking of unoriginal writing, I guess this is just about a wrap for Harvard typist Kaavya Viswanathan.
Update: The Herald ran a graphic comparing Rummy to Swanson and Dave Barry. Pretty amazing.
Aaron Read
There’s only one rule and it’s stolen from Bill Watterson’s “Calvinball” (Calvin & Hobbes): Make the rules up as you go.🙂
John Galt
There is not one iota of humor to be found in the churlish Sec’y of Defense.
Don
So, neither the Globe nor the Herald will hire you, eh?