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2014-05-28 Thread Lennart Thornros
Institutional incompetence James wrote Jed said most wars are fought with stupidity as a leading star. I think you both are right. This is not a new idea the examples are easy to find. Unfortunately it is a self propelling disease, once a group has accepted one stupid rule than it is easy to

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

2014-05-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
I have found a review http://eight2late.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/a-stupidity-based-theory-of-organisations-a-paper-review/ an article http://www.hcamag.com/the-lighter-side/a-stupiditybased-theory-of-organisations-177391.aspx and slides from the author

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

2014-05-27 Thread H Veeder
what do functionally stupid parties generate? Functionally stupid policies. Harry On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: I have found a review http://eight2late.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/a-stupidity-based-theory-of-organisations-a-paper-review/ an

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

2014-05-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
You want to talk about stupidity, and institutional failure? We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the worst example in history: World War I. All wars include shocking examples of stupidity and out-of-control egos. During the U.S. Civil War, a Union general delayed an attack in order to make

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

2014-05-27 Thread James Bowery
Institutional Incompetence, Conspiracy Theories and Pol Pothttp://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2011/07/institutional-incompetence-conspiracy.html I wrote this July 2011 as a way to explain how institutional incompetence can lead to genocidal reactions such as Pol Pot's. There is a point where the

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

2014-05-27 Thread H Veeder
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: This paper's abstract seems to cover that subject http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10./j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/ Too bad i can only read the abstract In this paper we question the one‐sided thesis

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2014-05-27 Thread Danny Ross Lunsford
Well said. Back to science - The HST is the most valuable science instrument ever made, doing the most useless work ever conceived (looking for exoplanets, cosmological surveys). The entire world of active galactic nuclei is desperate for sane and unbiased observations - there is no theory at