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Re: What does Gracious Professionalism mean to you

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post
If you were to look up definitions of "Gracious", and "Professional" (definitions supported by non-trivial scholarship), and cite them, wouldn't your job be done?

I think there is a good case to be made that the phrase means nothing more, and nothing less, than what you get by concatenating the meanings of each individual word.

I think that is precisely why those two words were chosen, and why the others were not.

Does that make sense?

Blake
That does make sense. Thank you for your advice on that, we will definitely include that in our restructure. However, and I may be naive for saying so, people also assign meanings to words and ideals. We could all crack open a Websters dictionary and find the definition but I think it would have much less of an impact on those who are not initiated in the culture of FIRST.

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