Professor Elam

Wed January 8, 2014

This short article mentions the difference in learning from a distance, the Western approach, versus being there, the Eastern Approach.

I quite agree. In touring business in San Antonio we noted at Standard Aero that the comptroller was on the manufacturing floor. She emphasized that she did not sit in her office upstairs. She needed to know what was happening in the process of re building turbo prop engines for the C 130. 

It is much easier to conceal a fraud if n one ever shows up to look the fraudster in the eye.