Marc Riddell wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Marc Riddell<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >>> To be fully productive, to reach its greatest >>> potential and to achieve its stated goals a workplace's culture cannot vary. >>> To work, to create, at their full potential, a person must be able to focus >>> on that: the work. They cannot be constantly looking over their shoulder, or >>> live with the anxiety that an unstable, unpredictable workplace can produce. >>> > on 8/12/09 1:09 PM, Carcharoth at [email protected] wrote: > > >> I think it is a balance. Have too uniform a culture and the variety of >> our output will suffer, both in terms of those willing to edit here >> (imagine the people who edit Wikipedia trying to get along in a normal >> workplace) and the diversity of the articles. There is also an >> argument that a homogenous workplace would work against 'neutral point >> of view'. >> >> > Once again, Carcharoth, I am not speaking about points of view regarding > specific subjects. We can disagree to hell and gone about something and > still maintain a mutual courtesy and respect for each other as human beings. > > Not sure whether to cite Dilbert or the Beach Boys here. To stop people "constantly looking over their shoulder" it would certainly help to place them in a 360-degree cubicle. To wish oneself the best of all cultural worlds sounds a bit like dreaming that "they all could be California girls". In any case the monoculture as an ideal does no favours to Wikipedia, whatever the pedigree of [[Taylorism]] and [[Fordism]] in the for-profit sector; dull but efficient is not really the way to go, either. "For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool/By making his world a little colder." Think the Beatles win this one.
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