I've worked with Brilliant Jerks. They're good at what they do, and they know it. They get shit done. But they also belittle their coworkers, disrupt the work of others, have to have their finger in every pie, are unwilling to delegate things that they don't need to do any more, etc. They like to be the pilot and at the controls at all times. But as a business grows, they cannot be central to every single last project any more. When they are asked to delegate, or find themselves excluded from even a minor project, they throw a hissy fit. You don't "appreciate" them. You "need" them to be involved. You're an ungrateful git because "they" do all the work around here while you slackasses stand around the water cooler and waste time.
The reality is that as a business goes from a startup to steady growth over time, you need people who are willing and able to delegate, otherwise they get stretched too thin, whether they want to admit it or not. That doesn't mean everything needs to be delegated, but some things that are essentially following the same steps every time can always be handed to a subordinate with proper training. Brilliant Jerks have a sense that other people cannot be trusted to do the jobs as well as they can, so they are afraid to lose that precious control, and want to do it themselves instead.
The example in the article was of a doctor who brought in twice as much revenue as some other doctors in the practice. That means he was either 1. seeing twice as many patients as the others in the same amount of time, meaning he was not having as many meaningful patient interactions or more likely 2. ordering unnecessary and expensive tests. Brilliant Jerk doctors like him are the reason healthcare in the US is in a crisis.
Now, if I want bottled craft beer $2 is on the cheap side. But for fresh beer made in a big copper tank, I'll gladly pay two bucks a pint and enjoy its cheapness.
If the dev team did their job right, installation of the software should be easy enough to have no more than a one page instruction sheet with some basic guidelines. Even horribly complicated apps, like a client/server AV, can be deployed on a network with minimum fuss when the software is built right. If I'm having to go in and adjust registry settings manually for your software, your development team is doing it wrong.
This is the US we're talking about. Even in cities where there is mass transit, half the time it's terrible. For example, Atlanta doesn't so much have a train system as it has a pathetic excuse for one.
The vendor of the major app used at that site refuses to support IE9 right now, so if someone's system isn't working they're going to blame the browser even if the error has nothing to do with the browser. Once they get their heads out of their asses and "officially" support IE9, I'll do a mass deployment.
A lot of them did fix it, and then promptly locked it into IE8 instead. I've been trying to prevent deployment of IE9 to around 200 Win7 systems ever since it was released. It finally got to the point where I started logging into the system and just clicking the damn "Hide update" button. Grrr.
This was my first thought upon reading the question as well. When I did business to business marketing for a Big Hardware Producer, I was treated much the same. We had certain call center goals - 120 "dials", 2 leads a day, 5-6 personalized emails. I quit about the time they raised the goal to 200 dials a day. Although they weren't cold calls, it was still telemarketing in the end, and the salary wasn't enough to justify the stress. I quit a week before I got married (since hey, I'm a lady and that sort of thing is still halfway expected in the south), and a little over a year later found a much better job in an incredible work environment. About the only thing the two companies have in common was that they were both IT-ish and both offered free coffee.
It's only gone from the big carriers. I use Metro PCS, and have 4G in the city where I live, along the major route I commute to Atlanta, and of course have it in Atlanta itself. (The trade off is having text-only outside of the network.) If you live in a rural area and need one of the big guys to provide coverage, you're screwed, but if you live in a metro area, you'll probably get a better deal with a smaller regional carrier.
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
Benzene isn't an "additive" so much as it is a natural byproduct of fire on organic matter. Regardless of whether the tobacco has stuff added to it, once it starts burning it becomes dangerous. That's not just tobacco smoke, though, that's any smoke. This is why even the pure tobacco used in pipes and cigars can ultimately lead to cancer (although admittedly at a reduced rate than their chemical filled cousins.) About the only inhaled burning substance that doesn't pose a confirmed danger to your lungs, your mouth, and the bits in between, is marijuana.
Wait, what? No scientific studies link tobacco consumption with cancer? What delusional rock do you live under? This article alone lists almost a hundred studies showing links.
if I was an investor, I would have stayed far far away. I'm pretty sure the majority of people who lost a lot of money on it don't actively use it; their biggest experience with it was watching a relative play Farmville.
Or leave it there for science. If Fuji-san erupts and buries the park on top in lava and/or ash, how long will the coke inside the cans stay fresh? We could dig it out a hundred years from now to check on the carbonation levels.
What do they know about anything??? This study just proves what I knew all along - the scientists are all in collusion with each other AND the government to take my gas and my guns and my cigarettes!!!
Except we know what Harvard's standards are: "The degree summa cum laude is for those who have attained ninety percent on the general scale, or have received Highest Honors in any department, and carries with it the assignment of an oration on the list of Commencement parts." If anything, Harvard is likely to have upped the scale in the century and a half they've been awarding honors.
If everyone is capable of everything, society collapses. I live in abject terror of the day my clients realize that there's nothing magical about installing software, rebooting a computer, or running network cables, because when that day comes I'll be out of a job. As it is, I'll fix their computers and they can continue to do whatever specialization is is they do.
Do people need to know how to program in C? No. Do they need to know how to think logically? It sure doesn't hurt. But there are other means of teaching formal logic; geometrical proofs are the standard for high school logic. I'm not sure that programming is necessarily the best way to go about it. The kids who have a natural knack for it will gravitate to it, so giving students the option as early as elementary or middle school is probably a fair thing to do. I don't think it should be a mandatory subject, especially at advanced levels.
Even better than just a stand up desk. For $500, get a simple walking treadmill, and then you can amble along at 1 MPH and burn off an extra fifty to 100 calories an hour. Better for every inch of your body.
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I did RTFA, and the impression I got from it was that while the other doctors respected him for his work, they didn't respect him for his attitude.
I've worked with Brilliant Jerks. They're good at what they do, and they know it. They get shit done. But they also belittle their coworkers, disrupt the work of others, have to have their finger in every pie, are unwilling to delegate things that they don't need to do any more, etc. They like to be the pilot and at the controls at all times. But as a business grows, they cannot be central to every single last project any more. When they are asked to delegate, or find themselves excluded from even a minor project, they throw a hissy fit. You don't "appreciate" them. You "need" them to be involved. You're an ungrateful git because "they" do all the work around here while you slackasses stand around the water cooler and waste time.
The reality is that as a business goes from a startup to steady growth over time, you need people who are willing and able to delegate, otherwise they get stretched too thin, whether they want to admit it or not. That doesn't mean everything needs to be delegated, but some things that are essentially following the same steps every time can always be handed to a subordinate with proper training. Brilliant Jerks have a sense that other people cannot be trusted to do the jobs as well as they can, so they are afraid to lose that precious control, and want to do it themselves instead.
The example in the article was of a doctor who brought in twice as much revenue as some other doctors in the practice. That means he was either 1. seeing twice as many patients as the others in the same amount of time, meaning he was not having as many meaningful patient interactions or more likely 2. ordering unnecessary and expensive tests. Brilliant Jerk doctors like him are the reason healthcare in the US is in a crisis.
Sometimes I wish I was a beta. (I don't think my conditioning stuck all that well.)
Budweiser is the king of beers in the same way WoW is the king of MMOs. Thirteen million users can't be wrong!
Now, if I want bottled craft beer $2 is on the cheap side. But for fresh beer made in a big copper tank, I'll gladly pay two bucks a pint and enjoy its cheapness.
If the dev team did their job right, installation of the software should be easy enough to have no more than a one page instruction sheet with some basic guidelines. Even horribly complicated apps, like a client/server AV, can be deployed on a network with minimum fuss when the software is built right. If I'm having to go in and adjust registry settings manually for your software, your development team is doing it wrong.
This is the US we're talking about. Even in cities where there is mass transit, half the time it's terrible. For example, Atlanta doesn't so much have a train system as it has a pathetic excuse for one.
The vendor of the major app used at that site refuses to support IE9 right now, so if someone's system isn't working they're going to blame the browser even if the error has nothing to do with the browser. Once they get their heads out of their asses and "officially" support IE9, I'll do a mass deployment.
A lot of them did fix it, and then promptly locked it into IE8 instead. I've been trying to prevent deployment of IE9 to around 200 Win7 systems ever since it was released. It finally got to the point where I started logging into the system and just clicking the damn "Hide update" button. Grrr.
This was my first thought upon reading the question as well. When I did business to business marketing for a Big Hardware Producer, I was treated much the same. We had certain call center goals - 120 "dials", 2 leads a day, 5-6 personalized emails. I quit about the time they raised the goal to 200 dials a day. Although they weren't cold calls, it was still telemarketing in the end, and the salary wasn't enough to justify the stress. I quit a week before I got married (since hey, I'm a lady and that sort of thing is still halfway expected in the south), and a little over a year later found a much better job in an incredible work environment. About the only thing the two companies have in common was that they were both IT-ish and both offered free coffee.
It's only gone from the big carriers. I use Metro PCS, and have 4G in the city where I live, along the major route I commute to Atlanta, and of course have it in Atlanta itself. (The trade off is having text-only outside of the network.) If you live in a rural area and need one of the big guys to provide coverage, you're screwed, but if you live in a metro area, you'll probably get a better deal with a smaller regional carrier.
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
Benzene isn't an "additive" so much as it is a natural byproduct of fire on organic matter. Regardless of whether the tobacco has stuff added to it, once it starts burning it becomes dangerous. That's not just tobacco smoke, though, that's any smoke. This is why even the pure tobacco used in pipes and cigars can ultimately lead to cancer (although admittedly at a reduced rate than their chemical filled cousins.) About the only inhaled burning substance that doesn't pose a confirmed danger to your lungs, your mouth, and the bits in between, is marijuana.
Wait, what? No scientific studies link tobacco consumption with cancer? What delusional rock do you live under? This article alone lists almost a hundred studies showing links.
if I was an investor, I would have stayed far far away. I'm pretty sure the majority of people who lost a lot of money on it don't actively use it; their biggest experience with it was watching a relative play Farmville.
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Probably the saddest thing is that I wasn't posting based on a stereotype, I was posting based on my father-in-law.
Or leave it there for science. If Fuji-san erupts and buries the park on top in lava and/or ash, how long will the coke inside the cans stay fresh? We could dig it out a hundred years from now to check on the carbonation levels.
What do they know about anything??? This study just proves what I knew all along - the scientists are all in collusion with each other AND the government to take my gas and my guns and my cigarettes!!!
Except we know what Harvard's standards are: "The degree summa cum laude is for those who have attained ninety percent on the general scale, or have received Highest Honors in any department, and carries with it the assignment of an oration on the list of Commencement parts." If anything, Harvard is likely to have upped the scale in the century and a half they've been awarding honors.
If everyone is capable of everything, society collapses. I live in abject terror of the day my clients realize that there's nothing magical about installing software, rebooting a computer, or running network cables, because when that day comes I'll be out of a job. As it is, I'll fix their computers and they can continue to do whatever specialization is is they do.
Do people need to know how to program in C? No. Do they need to know how to think logically? It sure doesn't hurt. But there are other means of teaching formal logic; geometrical proofs are the standard for high school logic. I'm not sure that programming is necessarily the best way to go about it. The kids who have a natural knack for it will gravitate to it, so giving students the option as early as elementary or middle school is probably a fair thing to do. I don't think it should be a mandatory subject, especially at advanced levels.
Even better than just a stand up desk. For $500, get a simple walking treadmill, and then you can amble along at 1 MPH and burn off an extra fifty to 100 calories an hour. Better for every inch of your body.
It makes perfect sense if you've ever played a game of Monopoly.
However, we already know he had a very high GPA. You don't graduate Summa Cum Laude (with highest honors) with a D lurking in your transcript.