Marvin Bower, who ran McKinsey in the 1950s and 1960s, fought to have consulting considered a profession like law and accounting, with the training, prestige and adherence to ethics that professionals pride themselves on.
Although much mysticism, like much religion, is indeed irrational, other mystical traditions take pride in their adherence to reason.
Officials would be required to disregard court orders: a terrible proposition in a country that prides itself on adherence to law.
For years, this small nation has prided itself on its adherence to pacifistic principles.
This is an embarrassment in a nation that prides itself on its adherence to the rule of law.
In a country that prides itself on its adherence to the rule of law, my father has been in solitary confinement for more than nine months, deprived initially of paper, pen and telephone, without any legal charges being filed or indication of length of his incarceration.
Mr. Rudman, a Korean War veteran and former amateur boxer, prided himself on his blunt-speaking adherence to centrist principles and his belief in bipartisan compromise as the underpinning of good government.
Perhaps we should look to our colleagues in Malawi and other resource-poor environments to help us reconnect with the core values of patient autonomy, simple recordkeeping, careful use of resources, adherence to protocols, innovation to tackle health education, integration of public health with clinical care and above all, professional pride in caring for patients.
Although excessive pride is a natural vice and self-esteem a natural virtue, human beings in society create the artificial virtue of good breeding (adherence to customs of slightly exaggerated mutual deference in accordance with social rank) to enable us each to conceal our own pride easily so that it does not shock the pride of others.
Adherence to a family tradition?
