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Examples of the Four Way Test in Business

From the Rotary Club of New York City #6 in a 2003 club newsletter came this item from Matts O. Ingemanson

 

Rotarian Taylor Gray sent the following very interesting information about Walgreens:

 

I was just reading the Walgreens annual report.  In 1956, Charles R. Walgreen Jr, the son of the drug store chain's founder, adopted the Rotary Four Way Test as the firm's set of guiding principles to guide employees to consider when making decisions about what they think, say or do.  It now hangs in the nearly 4,000 stores that Walgreens runs.

 

Regards,

Taylor

Billboard put up by Rotary Club of Oakland #3 in the late 1950's.

 

 

 

 

 

 Lighter from the collection of Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler

Four way test sleeps…

- Rtr. Rajesh Bajracharya (7th Sept. 2005)

Everyone needs a break

Accomplishing a huge task

Everyone does need a break

When one courageously unveils real mask

Everyone needs a break

 

So does every Rotary

Rotary needs a break

Accomplishing Herculean task

Each Rotary at work needs a break

But friends, that’s when 4 way test sleeps…

 

For every time, Rotary deceives

Club selfishness and the four way test sleeps

Whenever raw overtaking rules are at work

Without heart, the four way test sleeps

Whenever action overtakes vision, it sleeps…

 

Every time the four way test sleeps

Evil through dreams it creeps

For every time, Rotaract is forgotten

Through the tiredness, enters sins rotten

For every time Rotary rushes,

The truth, without creating fusses

The four way test slips, it simply just sleeps!

 
 
Yours-in-Rotaract
 
Rtr. Rajesh Bajracharya
District Director, Intl. Service Avenue and Public Relations 2005/06
ADRR Council of Nepal Clubs
RI district 3290
 
Past President
Rotaract Club of Lalitpur
 

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