Wow.

Post #396,873 by Another Scott 12/4/14 8:39:11 PM Reply	Wow.
Post #396,885 by rcareaga 12/5/14 12:29:36 PM Reply	Use of Pinochet is rather telling, isn't it? I'm reminded of the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick (presently, if the Christian afterlife is just, roasting on a spit in some particularly disagreeable precinct of the infernal regions) and her distinction between "totalitarian" and "authoritarian" regimes. Human rights didn't matter; the body count didn't matter. Totalitarians (brutal and wicked) consulted Marx for their economic policies and authoritarians (stern but just) looked to Milton Friedman. Similarly, mass killings in Central America were the work of "terrorists" if the money trail led back to Havana and "freedom fighters" if the expense vouchers were countersigned by a GS-12 in Langley VA. Our plutocrats would love to impose a Chilean solution on domestic discord, and these tools (the authors) are, in their small way, helping to prepare that path. I look forward to their sequel, Leadership Secrets of Pol Pot. cordially,
Post #396,897 by a6l6e6x 12/5/14 5:46:47 PM Reply	And incredibly you made no reference to Stalin! :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #396,899 by rcareaga 12/5/14 7:28:10 PM Reply	Alex, meet Felix. Felix, Alex. I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about down at the Lubyanka. in solidarity,
Post #396,942 by gcareaga 12/8/14 3:03:39 PM Reply	Definition of leadership I had to come back to the book because it is required for the workshop I am taking. Here is today's inspirational quote: "exercising leadership might be understood as disappointing people at a rate they can tolerate." /facepalm
Post #396,944 by Ashton 12/8/14 3:49:22 PM Reply	Perhaps 'stability' too, has been redefined in the Newspeak/biz-edition? Sadly, I've missed out on the marvelous new angles on keeping order in the workplace: is this an updated version of Who Moved My Cheese? (No I didn't read it; a synopsis was scary enough.) Guess that I have to find a Corporate-speak Transliteration course on-line somewhere, if I am to comprehend the exciting changes now being engineered. (Perhaps even, I can discover: who Listens to all those recordings? offered for our comfort and convenience, whenever a one calls one of these establishments.) The archives must be enormous! I'm missing so much of the new Progress. The authors then, would approve Citizens United and that other redefinition (in the /USSC Edition) whereby a Corporate entity has magically developed lungs, a central-brain and, presumably a soul too, in its new personhood. As to Pinochet's organizational chops, I doubt that in the early days he had the Techno to remotely dial-in the voltage settings on the tazers distributed to his enforcers. (Now the dis-US, in the wake of the current black-deaths universally being noticed, surely The Fuzz will modernize with Bluetooth? and assure all that they "have a handle on" their enforcers. We have lots of Techno here. Just watch.) The authors here seem fond of that "too much order" idea; wondering if that is a pillar in their management-change recipe, and if completion of the reprogramming will require that the Newspeak-edition of the OED must replace current phrase-checkers. Luck, for the foreseeable. What a Course; horses of course.
Post #396,945 by boxley 12/8/14 3:51:40 PM Reply	Re: Definition of leadership is hire the right people make sure the coffee is hot, donuts fresh and stay out of the fuckin way Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #396,946 by a6l6e6x 12/8/14 4:26:19 PM Reply	Amen to that! Also, to ask "What else do you need to pull this off!" And get whatever is needed. Sometimes, it is to remove bureaucratic impediments. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #396,962 by boxley 12/8/14 11:11:28 PM Reply	ayup, I like the quebec method of managemrnt manager wears a blue blazer, comes in a 10am reads the paper. Takes a 1.5 hour boozy lunch. Heads home at 4pm. Assistant manager works 70 hours a week, on call 24x7 and makes the whole thing run smoothly. He knows if he hustles he gets the blue blazer when the manager retires. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #397,118 by CRConrad 12/14/14 5:28:32 PM Reply	Yeah, well, maybe there is something to that? Just a recollection from a book on child-rearing -- one of the two or three books I've read in Finnish, by some Finnish guy you've never heard of -- on how growing up from toddler to even reasonably reasonable individual (i.e, the average eight-, ten- or twelve-year-old) was precisely learning to deal with disappointment. Related to deferred satisfaction and all that, if that sounds more familiar. So if growing up is about dealing with disappointment, then leadership might perhaps actually be about the "correct" amount of such to demand your followers to take...? Doesn't seem to be worth dismissing totally out of hand, IMO. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)

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