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I started off my carrer in the marine industry, a Japanese company.
Japanese emphasized a lot on morning exercises. They believed it
was a good start for the day.

At the initial stage, people in the marine industry were a complicated lot.
Some were gentleman-like, others, they spoke and acted like gangsters. Some of them were in fact gangsters, wanted by the authority in their respective countries. The marine sector was also the only place at that time for the lower educated people to make big bucks, on par with supervisory level of other industry.

The ground were marked with spots for us to stand for the morning exercise
with our manager facing us. Whoever did not turned up for the exercise will get  a dressing down from this manager, gangster or whatsoever. I told myself that one day if I did not turn up for the exercise, I will accept his scoldings with grace.

In later life, I realized that with this kind of thinking, my former manager was very successful in his action and as a superior - persistency.