Whats your honest opinion?

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Sean
In the real workforce a company is not going to apply tactics like gracious professionalism. They will do whatever they can to win the contract. The real world does not help there competitor. At the real world level the companies goals are money. The idea of "gracious professionalism" is mis-phrased and sometimes misused. It should be more of a quote like "Good Sportsmanship" which is an attribute that any competition should support. The real world does not have Gracious Professionalism.

*wondering how much real world work experience you base that on*

In my experience there were two companies who practiced gracious professionalism - Nordstrom and Oasis Residential in Vegas. Both companies practiced amazing customer service which brought to them the success they deserved acting with gp. Oasis was sold, and the founders started a new business, our team's corporate sponsor rent.com - a win-win for renters and landlords.

In the other company I worked for, there were people in the company who practiced gp, altho perhaps the company as a whole didn't practice it - thus I'm not naming it. My favorite mentor there modeled for me GP.

I don't think gp has the narrow definition you give it. On a personal level imo it means "taking care of yourself" and "caring for the other person" - like giving yourself oxygen on a plane in trouble so you can help the person next to you. On a business level I'd say it's "taking care of business" and caring about customers, employees, environment, world issues...

At the real world level the companies goals are money. The FIRST program has an entirely different goal and thats education.

and our corporate sponsor obviously cares about education.


I think sportsmanship is only one facet of the gp diamond.