O’Reilly: Good evening Mr. Clay, I’d like to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me this evening. Before we get started please let me extend this token of my appreciation for your thoughts, insights and answers tonight, especially as a political analyst, this particular time of year is most busy for you! A little bird told me about an author you so enjoy, who happens to be good friends with my family.
The former Governor, as you know, has a new book coming soon, and, as always, was gracious enough to meet me for a glass of wine to sign his new release to give to you. We spoke at length of your impressive work and you will notice in his inscription his appreciation for all the work you do. We discussed a statistic from one …show more content…
Making us all the fools! (Laughter)
Mr. Clay: (Answer Question 5) From the point-of-view of my research and my own experience, I would say I do not agree with the rotten apple theory of human culture. Instead, it is my understanding that we all contribute to the culture within which we operate. It 's never a case of a few people who are doing something that ruins it for the rest of us, but rather a culture we have all built together will tend to lead in certain directions and not others.
If we wish to go in a new direction, then we 're going to run up against some barriers. Really, it is a matter of knowing what we feel is important to do and why we feel it 's important, how it provides a better service – if we are in a service providing sector – and then encouraging, proposing to those around us process improvements and seeing where that goes. That would be my answer. It 's not a few rotten apples but rather we 're all responding to the channels, the pathways of the culture within which we operate. We all know that there are costs to attempting to follow a different cultural path even though there may also be benefits,
The former Governor, as you know, has a new book coming soon, and, as always, was gracious enough to meet me for a glass of wine to sign his new release to give to you. We spoke at length of your impressive work and you will notice in his inscription his appreciation for all the work you do. We discussed a statistic from one …show more content…
Making us all the fools! (Laughter)
Mr. Clay: (Answer Question 5) From the point-of-view of my research and my own experience, I would say I do not agree with the rotten apple theory of human culture. Instead, it is my understanding that we all contribute to the culture within which we operate. It 's never a case of a few people who are doing something that ruins it for the rest of us, but rather a culture we have all built together will tend to lead in certain directions and not others.
If we wish to go in a new direction, then we 're going to run up against some barriers. Really, it is a matter of knowing what we feel is important to do and why we feel it 's important, how it provides a better service – if we are in a service providing sector – and then encouraging, proposing to those around us process improvements and seeing where that goes. That would be my answer. It 's not a few rotten apples but rather we 're all responding to the channels, the pathways of the culture within which we operate. We all know that there are costs to attempting to follow a different cultural path even though there may also be benefits,