Ugh, don't make me agee with the vampire! 8^)  It reminds me of one of my pet 
peeves: "Safety is job #1."  No... the job is job #1.  Safety should be 
sacrificed in order to achieve the objective. [sigh]

On 03/14/2017 04:10 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 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.  


-- 
☣ glen

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