Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2567

Letter from Kermit Fischer, President, Fischer & Porter Company, Hatboro, Pennsylvania

May 10, 1957

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

Thank you for your letter of 10th April and the copy of your letter to the Editors of the Harvard Business Review which you attached to it. I appreciate very much your sending me this letter and I don’t want to be either improperly blunt or ungracious in replying.

 However, while you speak in the second paragraph of your letter to the Harvard Business Review of the “naively im­plied thesis” of Dr. Ohmann’s, my feeling is that it is you who are being naive about the situation and that you end up with what amounts to just a lot of platitudes.

 Just the last few nights I have been reading Dr. Fromm’s “The Sane Society”. As I read it I could not help but feel that in good part it offered the explanations for the prob­lems Dr. Ohmann has isolated and set before us clearly and fairly.

 I’m sorry I’m not on your side but remain, with best good will,

 

Yours sincerely,

 

/s/ Kermit Fischer

 

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cc:  Editor, Harvard Business Review

Dr. O. A. Ohmann