From my latest copy of New Scientist. 30 March page 33.
Quotes a study looking at how corporations make use of their brightest talents. Many corporations seek out highly talented people, but then immediately act to switch off the talent. They managed these brightest people in such a way as to ensure that their abilities were suppressed. This functional stupidity was a major contributor to the financial crisis. Those who had the smarts to see disaster coming were not permitted to act on that knowledge.
Sounds familiar. Corporations are just as stupid as ordinary people. It is just that their stupidity is more disastrous.
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I read the same article, BG. The biggest problem is corporations in the financial sector, whose stupidity and/or shenanigans can have a disastrous multiplier effect on the whole economy, as we've already seen...
But in corporations that actually produce goods, there must be some variation in how they use their talented people - it would be interesting to see if the most successful of them have people-management policies that are less stupid than average...
But in corporations that actually produce goods, there must be some variation in how they use their talented people - it would be interesting to see if the most successful of them have people-management policies that are less stupid than average...
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The problem is the whole thing now revolves around the bottomline, so if they can't milk it, they fuck it.
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Having worked for such a corporation, I hold no hope that they are different. The outfit I worked for would say one thing, which was smart, and then do the exact opposite - stupid - thing in practice.JimC wrote: But in corporations that actually produce goods, there must be some variation in how they use their talented people - it would be interesting to see if the most successful of them have people-management policies that are less stupid than average...
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Universities are no different.
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The best and the brightest seldom make it to managerial positions. Shit floats.
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Although very dense turds sink...Azathoth wrote:The best and the brightest seldom make it to managerial positions. Shit floats.
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Azathoth wrote:The best and the brightest seldommake it to managerial positions. Shit floats.
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"group think"? In Finnish there is a saying that spells it out very clearly "joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy" (stupidity gets denser in a group).
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"The IQ of a crowd is that of the lowest IQ in the crowd divided by the number of people."MiM wrote:"group think"? In Finnish there is a saying that spells it out very clearly "joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy" (stupidity gets denser in a group).
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Rape, pillage, and then get the hell outBlind groper wrote:From my latest copy of New Scientist. 30 March page 33.
Quotes a study looking at how corporations make use of their brightest talents. Many corporations seek out highly talented people, but then immediately act to switch off the talent. They managed these brightest people in such a way as to ensure that their abilities were suppressed. This functional stupidity was a major contributor to the financial crisis. Those who had the smarts to see disaster coming were not permitted to act on that knowledge.
Sounds familiar. Corporations are just as stupid as ordinary people. It is just that their stupidity is more disastrous.
But where is the evidence of stupidity? They didn't get stuck holding the bag 
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