...The Parable of the Sadhu On a mountain climbing expedition to the Himalayas, Bowen McCoy, a managing director of the Morgan Stanley Company, and his party found a pilgrim, or Sadhu, dying of cold. Although the climbers helped the holy man, Mr. McCoy and his team ultimately pressed on with their trek, determined to reach the summit. This unexpected ethical dilemma left them questioning their values--and the values of business, which often places goal achievement ahead of other considerations. In this moving article, which received the Harvard Business Photos by Mike Brozda Review’s Ethics Prize in 1983, Mr. McCoy relates his experience in the distant mountain of Nepal to the short and long-term goals of American business. Bowen McCoy Last year, as the first participant of in the new six-month sabbatical program that Morgan Stanley has adopted, I enjoyed a rare opportunity to collect my thoughts as well as do some traveling. I spent the first three months in Nepal, walking 600 miles through 200 villages in the Himalayas and climbing some 120,000 vertical feet. On the trip my sole Western companion was an anthropologist who shed light on the cultural patterns of the villages we passed through. During the Nepal hike, something occurred that has had a powerful impact on my thinking about corporate ethics. Although some might argue that the experience has no relevance to business, it was a situation in which a basic ethical dilemma suddenly intruded into the lives of a group of...
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...The Old and The New When first reading Harryette Mullen’s tanka on page 101, we can see in our mind’s eye climbers hiking beside dead hikers on Mount Everest. Looking further into the tanka, more meanings are excavated. The climbers represent a new generation of people while the dead represent the past generations that they are trying to surpass. The peak of Everest is the goals, ideals, and innovations the new generation are hoping to achieve, while Everest itself is the journey the climbers go through to achieve their goals. The fatigue represents the old ideals that the newer generation is trying to overcome, while the frozen dead indicates the way the old generation are frozen in their antiquated beliefs and ideals. The first three words in the poem are “Climbers on Everest” (Mullen 101), which initially gives the reader a vision of a rough and turbulent journey for the climbers. The groups that the climbers are referring to are the new generation of young adults struggling on the mountain. The mountain symbolizes life’s journey, which includes a beginning, the main climb, and the peak. This refers to the timeline of humanity, with ideals being changed for the better as one goes up the mountain. Specifically naming Mount Everest paints life as hard and strenuous, as Everest is the highest and most difficult mountain to climb. The climbers are described as being “fixed,” which means that they have a stubborn determination toward reaching their goal, with the word “reaching”...
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...Yellow Sometimes life can be hard. Sometimes life can be inhuman. It depends on how you look at it. We are all humans, but all as different as night and day. Especially when it comes to how we live our lifes. Jon, Berto and Brian, three very different persons who is together about the same thing. It could be a big success, but Jon doesn’t like the idea one hundred per cent. That means he is the biggest challenge, booth for the team and for himself. Jon seems to be dynamic and brave, but when we are looking down in the story, he is not so perfect as we thought. His relationship to alcohol is problematic and his love life could be better. He works on a magazine, but it isn’t sure he is a journalist. Jon is sending away on a barrier- breaking trip, which is very demanding. But the trip can’t be a success because Jon neither has the courage nor the desire to carry through. He shows that many times in the story, and he shows too that he is pressed against his will. But we have to look at the title yellow, it tells us much about the story! Yellow means something like cowardly. Every time Jon hears yellow in his head, he feels like a scared person. So in fact he has a bit of self-knowledge, it is just hard to see. Breaking boundaries is something we all have to do, especially when we have bad luck in our lives. When we come out where we can’t swim and where other people can’t reach us, there we have to show strength and will! The things Jon does are big for him, but...
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...The Parable of the Sadhu On a mountain climbing expedition to the Himalayas, Bowen McCoy, a managing director of the Morgan Stanley Company, and his party found a pilgrim, or Sadhu, dying of cold. Although the climbers helped the holy man, Mr. McCoy and his team ultimately pressed on with their trek, determined to reach the summit. This unexpected ethical dilemma left them questioning their values--and the values of business, which often places goal achievement ahead of other considerations. In this moving article, which received the Harvard Business Review’s Ethics Prize in 1983, Mr. McCoy relates his experience in the distant mountain of Nepal to the short and long-term goals of American business. Last year, as the first participant of in the new six-month sabbatical program that Morgan Stanley has adopted, I enjoyed a rare opportunity to collect my thoughts as well as do some traveling. I spent the first three months in Nepal, walking 600 miles through 200 villages in the Himalayas and climbing some 120,000 vertical feet. On the trip my sole Western companion was an anthropologist who shed light on the cultural patterns of the villages we passed through. During the Nepal hike, something occurred that has had a powerful impact on my thinking about corporate ethics. Although some might argue that the experience has no relevance to business, it was a situation in which a basic ethical dilemma suddenly intruded into the lives of a group of individuals. How the group...
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...undergraduate, he designed a nuclear weapon using publicly available books and papers. Books are very cheap entertainment. Used books can be purchased for a dollar or less. Many famous people learned things from books rather than in a structured educational environment. Today you can use the internet to enhance your reading experience. I have read several books that led me to the internet because I wanted to know more about some of the things or people mentioned in the books. Other times I have written down words I didn't know the meaning of and looked them up on the internet for my own education and to improve my vocabulary. Several years ago I read Almost Adam by Petru Popescu and Neanderthal by John Darnton. One of the books mentioned a Sherpa guide and I googled him to see if it he was an actual person. He was and when he died in an accident a few years later and I saw his name in the news I knew who he was. Sometimes when I'm reading and I go on...
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...“Into Thin Air”, a book written by Jon Krakauer, mountaineer and renowned for his writing of the outdoors, is Krakauer’s account of the deadliest season of Everest. In the beginning of the story, Krakauer writes, “I can attest that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10 suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down,” (Krakauer 5). This quote is foreshadowing what is to come later in the story, and Krakauer suggests that he and other climbers were unaware and unsuspecting of the “murderous storm”. As the story goes on, Krakauer talks about Everest, writing, “I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale-swept vertex,” (Krakauer 59). This quote tells of the presence of Everest, and how large, yet beautiful it is. Krakauer does a good job of letting the reader know what it is like to be looking at the largest mountain in the world. Lastly, Krakauer writes, “I stayed behind to walk with Andy, who had to exert a monumental effort just one foot in front of the other,” (Krakauer 75). Krakauer is talking about one of the members of his climbing group, and due to sickness, despite not even beginning the climb, is exhausted. This quote also proves the physical fitness that ascending Everest demands. Insane, Krakauer, at 42 years, decided that he would join climbing guide Rob Hall’s expedition to the summit of Everest. Because of his lifelong dream of reaching the summit of Everest, Krakauer explains he...
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...Nepal Trekking and Expedition (P.) Ltd. is a Nepal Government chose in 1997 Kathmandu base driving Travel, Trekking affiliation, completely controlled by a social gathering of experienced Nepali expert Trekking and Tour Guides coming about to 1993, why should submitted give phenomenal, revamp association to our customers. No get-together is too little or unreasonably sweeping, making it difficult to get their own specific patch up thought. There are different Trekking Companies in Nepal, yet we promise you will locate nobody more focused for your security or set out to guarantee you get most astonishing satisfaction on your endeavor escape in Nepal. Nepal Trekking was set up on standards of significant admiration and perception. Our distinctive society, individuals, legacy, traditions, nature and Environment is ensured by our travel pros who control our guests to flimsy areas. We tread daintily and unnoticeably, there by guaranteeing you of a honest to goodness, satisfying establishment. Yet our costs are conscious of you. We don't take part in the showing of blasting costs just to abuse our good natured guests nor do we attempt to advance you a bill. We have as of late arranged to keep our costs measures in light of the way that we love our work. We have as of late our office here in Kathmandu to staff and the general open we give our presence to shrouds ravenousness. Since verbal exchange is our key framework for publicizing. We need to shine and be of amazing worth. We...
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...Jon Krakauer was a part of the deadliest expedition in Mount Everest history (at that point), with 8 people dying on May 10 and 11th in 1996. Into Thin Air was written by Jon Krakauer, an avid mountaineer in his youth and a journalist as he is climbing Everest. Jon writes about his expedition and personal experience of climbing Everest. In the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer uses rhetorical appeals to express the dangers of climbing Mt Everest. Jon Krakauer triggers readers emotions with careful wording, and uses human nature to justify climbing Mt Everest. Jon is explaining the history of Mount Everest, when he exclaims that it's human nature to want to climb everest. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (Krakauer 16). Krakauer is implying that it is human logic, or nature to climb Mount Everest. One way he uses pathos is by telling us his thoughts on the death of Andy Harris after he has arrived back at his home in Seattle. “ My actions - or failure to act - played a direct role in the death of Andy…of grief and guilt-ridden self-reproach” (Krakauer 283). Krakauer feels guilty because he believes he could have done more to help Andy get safely to the camp. The careful selection of words adds emotion and allows the reader to feel how Krakauer felt while contemplating the events that unfolded on Everest. Before Jon’s expedition starts climbing Everest...
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