Or that its incessant activity, rather than the sudden brief explosions favoured by Hollywood, would continue to this day.
Could it be that the source of our real value as leaders might come from different thinking and different choices rather than from perpetuation of the incessant pace we are straining to maintain?
True, the show's liabilities -- protractedly archetypal characters, recounted rather than dramatized events, undistinguished lyrics, incessant reprises of main tunes -- have not vanished.
Instead of giving into my incessant complaining, rather than shutting me up by just telling me, she taught me to figure things out even if I didn't know where to begin to make the problem go away, that is, to solve the problem.
Familiarizing with those pressures, rather than whining about them, prepares high potentials for the incessant scrutiny they will face as leaders.
Rather than enable employees to interrupt each others' work with incessant questions, pings and calendar invites, the company enforces "office hours". Office hours for experts are scheduled one day a week for three hours.
Second, in the Senate, having a majority of 52 rather than 59 or 60 would force Democrats to confront the Republicans' incessant misuse of the filibuster to require that any piece of legislation garner a minimum of 60 votes to become law.
But this turning inward, despite the incessant drumbeat of "community," is quickly becoming the rule rather than the exception.
Limited "lives," harsh penalties for failure, arbitrary goal structures, competition rather than cooperation — these are all dynamics that have their origins in the incessant need of an arcade game to keep gobbling quarters.
Quiet music demands audio quality and close attention, rather than crappy earbuds and computer speakers that struggle to be heard over the incessant background hum.
