Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
    Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

" a river runs through it".... but do they say it in the movie? i remember it from the book....

Redford narrates remember and he reads that and this.  By the way I got to fish the river right after the movie came out.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
    I am haunted by waters.

That is my mantra

you are an interesting guy. i know the quote because the CEO of my company some years ago had fallen in love with the film. he made it required viewing for our 100-person management team and offered a weekend at his condo on virginia beach as a prize to the person submitting the best review i read the book, saw the film, and sucked up like a lamprey. pathetic.

i didn't win, either.

hey, you're not him, are you?

did your CEO really do that?  that's absolutely bizarre.  was this in the NE region? Beantown ?

if my CEO (theoretically) did something like that, i would be SCARED

talk about "micromanagement" !

LOL

Bet you don't go skinny dipping with your ATF and fall asleep in the sun though  LOL

Gotta love privately owned companies.  I don't know whether to think the guy is an original thinker or, as Single suggested, a micromanager.  
Now, if he had made "Office Space" mandatory viewing...

yup, northeast, but the other end of massachusetts.

you'd be amazed at how anti-micromanagement he was.... and of course, "required viewing" was tongue-in-cheek, though i'll bet at least 90% of the team saw the film. many went together (his plan all along) and of course those that did not go were not tracked, harrassed, or demoted
the purpose of the exercise was:
- to get the 'team' to do some things together outside of work
- to give us something to talk about at meetings beyond money
- to try to illustrate the importance of some core values like trust, loyalty, family (right or wrong), patience, etc. and get us to apply them to our workplace.


he reminded me a little of robert loggia's character in BIG.

we were floundering when he took over the reins of the company. he saved us from dissolution and then accepted a teaching post at an ivy league school near his homeowon and family.

anyway, i would have run through a brick wall for the guy

it's a not-for-profit health care organization. the largest employer in the area. when he took over the corporation, we were in danger of having to dip into our foundation to make payroll. to those of you who don't know what that means.... well, it's bad. when he left, and consistently thereafter, we've been 5mil+ yearly to the good. chicken feed to a big time commercial enterprise, but pretty goddamned good for a small market health care organization.

unfortunately, the only aspects of the quality management teaching of guys like deming, crosby, juran, berwick, and fiegenbaum that seem to have stuck in healthcare are those that involve time studies and measurement.... the creative aspect has been lost before it ever got found.

He is an original thinker.  Whatever works, and happy to hear that things turned around for y'all.

Believe me, Clarence, healthcare isn't the only field that is afraid of those types of management techniques.

Some of my brethren would disagree with the creativity management side.  How else can you explain some of the large HMO's CEO salaries and bonuses while decreasing physician reimbursement and decreasing patient benefit?
Oops did I say that?