In a big enough organization where there are many layers of management, those stuck in the middle may not really be grounded in any meaningful performance metrics. They may divide labor even if there is nothing to divide, because that is _their_ job. They build control systems -- what else would they do? They acquire resources so they can allocate them. Obviously!! As Peter Thiel remarked, they become so preoccupied by the `quality' of what they put in to their control system, they fail to think (or care?) about the value of what comes out.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled Jobs are indistinguishable from degree programs. On 03/14/2017 03:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > One thing I'm struck by is how willing some people are to be tasked by > relatively ignorant or ineffectual people. My guess is that filtering on > GPA optimizes for this. As far as I can tell, the tasked individuals don't > perceive that the tasking is getting in the way of their ability to pursue > their idea of the Right Thing or finding the Interesting Question. They > might even _want_ the tasking. I find it very strange. I always found > education to be that obligatory activity that interrupted the thing I wanted > to do or the thing that I thought needed to be done. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
