Captains of industry
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COURSES of the kind introduced by army officer selection boards are being applied to industry by the Leadership Trust. A. E. Edmunds Walker is among companies that have put managers through battle training at Symonds Vat West, Herefordshire.
Transport Training, published by the Road Transport Industry Training Board, says: "Each project is carefully chosen so that it relates to the type of everyday situations which course members are likely to find at their workplace . . .
"The ultimate test was . . the building of a rope bridge between the bank and an island in the middle of the River Wye. Unfortunately the river had risen so much in the night that the isle' had been completely swamps making it impossible ... to bui the ropeway."
So those intrepid souls who workplaces are inundated I water everyday were deprived the excitement of combating ti torrent and had to content ther selves with building a ropew on dry land. They still padc about their offices in waders b it was a gallant effort.