TODAY - June 30


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 30

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 5 minutes shorter than June 5. Its length is 17 hours and 29 minutes – from 04.34 to 22.03.

See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called LUCINA’s DAY.  She was a Christian Roman woman, who looked well after other Christians, who were imprisoned, brought food to them, etc. And she took part in the burial of executed martyrs.  She died 95 years old in 365 AC.

The name of the day in Belgium is SAINTS PROTOMARTYRS.  This is normally the name of the first Christian martyr in a country – such as Berard of Carbio in Morocco.


TODAY’s EVENT:

The Frenchman Charles Blondin is as the first person crossing the Niagara Falls on a rope. The distance is 300 m, and he is 90 m above the Falls. About 10.000 people looked at his walk.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Peter Principle – what is that? And what does it say?

This expression tells that there is a tendency to promoting all employees beyond what their skills can manage. This naturally leads to incompetence and people being useless or worse in their jobs. The expression was in its most recent form described by the Canadian Lawrence J. Peter in 1969 (hence the name), The Peter Principle.

But already in 1910 Jose Ortega e Gasset wrote that all employees ought to be degraded to the level under the one they are actually working at. This would according to him give the best work.

To this description can be added – as others have done – that in such a situation (ruled by the Peter principle) staff often manages to manipulate with their incompetent superiors in such a way that they do not interfere in their work. It is often called Managing upwards.

As an old hand in the EU I wonder, if this principle still lives today J

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Danish (pastry):  what is that? And what is the history?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

When the future is concerned your task is not to foresee it, but to make it possible.

This has been said by the French poet Antoine de Exupéry.

2.  Today’s quote:

None of today’s persons has said anything unforgettable.

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1470:  King Charles VIII  ( died 1498 )
1884:  Georges Duhamel  ( died 1966 )
1893:  Walter Ulbricht  ( died 1973 )
1917:  Lena Horne  ( died 2010 )
1918:  Susan Hayward  ( died 1975 )
1964:  Countess Alexandra

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1971:  Herbert Bibermann  ( 71 years )
2001:  Chet Atkins  ( 77 years )
2001:  Johannes Sløk  ( 85 years )

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
niels4europe@gmail.com  
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   + EUROPE-AT-WORK  www.europe-at-work.be 

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