Article: A prime target: a personal rebellion against 'think-alike' boards motivated the founding of Directors & Boards.(ENDNOTE)(Excerpt)

Ed. Note: Stanley Foster Reed, founder of DIRECTORS & BOARDS, died on Oct. 25, 2007, at the age of 90 (see tribute by his daughter, Alexandra Reed Lajoux, on page 28.) The following article is from an essay he composed for the journal's 20th anniversary edition published in 1996.

AT THE END of the 20th century, a French pharmacist-turned-hypnotist-turned-self-motivationist, Emile Coue by name, believed that people would be happier and more productive if they could get to know and like themselves. And he persuaded millions of the French citoyens to stand in front of a mirror and repeat over and over, "Tous les jours, a tous les points de vue, je vais de mieux en ...

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