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A comment on Rickover's Lessons.

Re:Rickover's Lessons by throwawaymaths on Monday March 24, 2025 @10:13AM (#43461353)
missing from the account is just how much rickover was hated internally by the navy, until he wasn't. IIRC his office was in converted women's room in the pentagon.
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Re:Rickover's Lessons by gnfargbl on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:49PM (#43462995)
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel," as Maya Angelou has it.

Rickover, for all his delivery talents, apparently made a good proportion of people feel like shit.

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Re:Rickover's Lessons by throwawaymaths on Monday March 24, 2025 @04:50PM (#43465286)
i don't think that's really it. he was hated because of his interactions with his superiors, not generally because of how he treated people below him.
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Re:Rickover's Lessons by gnfargbl on Monday March 24, 2025 @06:30PM (#43466066)
The quote applies to everyone!
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Re:Rickover's Lessons by FootballBat on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:31PM (#43477218)
No, pretty much everyone hated him.
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