I read most of the comments so far and it's pretty apparent that most posters do not work for large corporations. This particular managment style is NORMAL in corporate America, and most of those companies are PROUD of this particular corporate culture.
The part of the article that I found MOST useful, and would wish that management in some of these companies would learn is this:
-- "Two problems with this approach: one is that kinder and gentler people, who may be still be very smart, get stomach aches and other unpleasant symptoms when they gave to confront bullying. Microsoft lost out on some people who could have contributed but couldn't take this kind of heat. Second problem is that the bullying gets emulated down the line. There was nothing quite as absurd as a newly-hired college graduate thinking he could be as smart or rich as billg if he could only manage to be as rude." --
The assumption that only pushy, loudmouthed, arrogant ass----- have good ideas is ridiculous. However in companies that push this particular style of 'self-representation', only those individuals' ideas will be heard. In this day and age when many people acknowledge the abilities of autistic people (who might not good self-advocates) how many truly remarkable ideas are lost? I would LOVE to work for a company that found better ways to extract meaningful new ideas from it's employees rather than the brute force method.
As for the second point, in my time in the corporate world, I've seen MANY rcg's immediately adopt the 'brute force' approach to dealing with their peers due to the examples set by management. I perceive that these traits that are being taught early in the careers of our future leaders will only serve to make the future work place culture even worse than what we have now.
Brought to you by the same group that ignores/denounces the mountain meadows massacre, pretends underaged, incestuous, polygamous, relationships did not exist and that polygamy is STILL not a part of their core doctrines, denies any connection between the masonic rituals and their own devinely inspired ceremonies, etc, etc, etc.
Utah's dominate religion gives power to a group of individuals in government that are PROUD of the skewed perspective they have on various aspects of daily life. Most people outside of the religion are unaware of the extreme points of view that are contained within the mormon belief structure and that it is supported by a large silent majority of individuals who have been indoctrinated from birth to not see any other point of view as having validity. This point cannot be proven any more completely than through the religion's own persecution of what they term 'intellectuals'.
The lawmakers were able to push through this crappy piece of legislation primarily due to the cultural environment that exists in Utah and the lack of a constituency that has the ability to apply unbiased critical thought processes to any subject linked to their core values.
Hitler had a silent majority, they were an effective ally in his war against the Jews.
"In other news, Jerry Taylor, former Tuttle Oklahoma city administrator was recently hired to manage the State of Illinois' computing infrastructure. . . . .."
What does it matter how small the engine is if it's only being used as a generator and the electric system is pushing power to the wheels? It could be a 3.5hp Briggs and Stratton for keeping the batteries charged as long as we still get the REAL motor doing the work.
fwiw - I own a 2000 TDI. All-time high 810 miles on 15.5 Gallons of diesel. As much as I love my Jetta, I would gladly trade if for something that is a bit cleaner not only to the environment but to the mechanic to work on as well. soot sucks. (provided I didn't lose any of that nice torquey feel)
"one of the consultants I knew told me that his role on the project was to voice unpleasant truths, and he did." Ahhhhh, and the keyword in this is CONSULTANT. Managment doesn't truly want this person onboard permanently. Instead, we'll take someone who is temporarily there, pay them BUTTLOAD$ and deal with them for a few months. After they leave it's back to business as usual.
That's amazing. Many companies use this 1-year non-comp clause in their employment agreements that are usually nothing more than a way to lock employees into working for their company and effectively holding them hostage to whatever salary range that they originally agree. Only those select few individuals that make god-like salaries have the ability to quit a job, wait a year, then start with a new company.
No, it was quite a bit different six years ago . . . . nowdays there are many of us who were born here who are actually looking at alternative places to live. The (&*(*(#)&$#@$!'n Bush administration has turned this place into mother russia as it was 25 years ago.
Storing source and destination information regarding calls is much more realistic than maintaing complete copies of all data ever transported across the net. I mean think about it, what is the netspeed upto these days?? Several terabytes a minute? Bandwidth vs storage is two different things. Now mind you, if they are culling and selectively storing data . . . . . be afraid.
Besides, in the last dozen or so years haven't we already had a couple of new political parties crop up? United We Stand party, etc? They don't seem to have been very effective.
What's the big deal? Let's see, government is monitoring my personal debt load, not something that they should have any business in.
The fact that you would be alarmed should Homeland Security NOT be monitoring you illustrates the polarity of opinions that exist in our country. Over the course of the last 6 years we went from a country where the idea of illegal wiretapping caused scandal to one where government openly says they are monitoring individuals finances, contacts, movements, etc. Freedoms are slowly (quickly) being eroded in the name of security and in short order the united states is going to resemble Germany just prior to WWII.
Privacy, yes, I agree that there is very little. But perhaps we've come to this level of lack of privacy due to a lack of enough people opposing it.
We are on a slope going the wrong direction. Once again I will requote Ben Franklin; "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." This SO applies to our times.
I don't get the hype. I own a stock 2000 TDI Jetta and on my last cross country trip I averaged 52.25 MPG. Mind you, I don't have a 200HP electric motor tied to the front axles so my acceleration isn't neck snapping, but it sure beats the hell out of the kia i used to own.
Yes, however go to any large corporation and apply for an engineering job, or any sort of technical job for that matter . . . . If you don't have a degree, you don't stand a chance in hell of even getting in the door. Even if you DO get in, then it's more an issue of playing office politics rather than being given an opportunity to actually create something useful . . . or waiting for the shark in the next cube to snake the credit for your work.
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I read most of the comments so far and it's pretty apparent that most posters do not work for large corporations. This particular managment style is NORMAL in corporate America, and most of those companies are PROUD of this particular corporate culture.
The part of the article that I found MOST useful, and would wish that management in some of these companies would learn is this:
--
"Two problems with this approach: one is that kinder and gentler people, who may be still be very smart, get stomach aches and other unpleasant symptoms when they gave to confront bullying. Microsoft lost out on some people who could have contributed but couldn't take this kind of heat. Second problem is that the bullying gets emulated down the line. There was nothing quite as absurd as a newly-hired college graduate thinking he could be as smart or rich as billg if he could only manage to be as rude."
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The assumption that only pushy, loudmouthed, arrogant ass----- have good ideas is ridiculous. However in companies that push this particular style of 'self-representation', only those individuals' ideas will be heard. In this day and age when many people acknowledge the abilities of autistic people (who might not good self-advocates) how many truly remarkable ideas are lost? I would LOVE to work for a company that found better ways to extract meaningful new ideas from it's employees rather than the brute force method.
As for the second point, in my time in the corporate world, I've seen MANY rcg's immediately adopt the 'brute force' approach to dealing with their peers due to the examples set by management. I perceive that these traits that are being taught early in the careers of our future leaders will only serve to make the future work place culture even worse than what we have now.
Or since they want to use windows, how bout a hardware solution? http://www.elecomsystems.com/showpages.asp?pid=100 6
Brought to you by the same group that ignores/denounces the mountain meadows massacre, pretends underaged, incestuous, polygamous, relationships did not exist and that polygamy is STILL not a part of their core doctrines, denies any connection between the masonic rituals and their own devinely inspired ceremonies, etc, etc, etc.
Utah's dominate religion gives power to a group of individuals in government that are PROUD of the skewed perspective they have on various aspects of daily life. Most people outside of the religion are unaware of the extreme points of view that are contained within the mormon belief structure and that it is supported by a large silent majority of individuals who have been indoctrinated from birth to not see any other point of view as having validity. This point cannot be proven any more completely than through the religion's own persecution of what they term 'intellectuals'.
The lawmakers were able to push through this crappy piece of legislation primarily due to the cultural environment that exists in Utah and the lack of a constituency that has the ability to apply unbiased critical thought processes to any subject linked to their core values.
Hitler had a silent majority, they were an effective ally in his war against the Jews.
Hey! Did Jerry Taylor get a new job and no one told me?!
Now if they'd only cut the top 8% of management (presumably higher paid than the sales staff), THEN they would be accomplishing something!
"In other news, Jerry Taylor, former Tuttle Oklahoma city administrator was recently hired to manage the State of Illinois' computing infrastructure. . . . . ."
What does it matter how small the engine is if it's only being used as a generator and the electric system is pushing power to the wheels? It could be a 3.5hp Briggs and Stratton for keeping the batteries charged as long as we still get the REAL motor doing the work.
fwiw - I own a 2000 TDI. All-time high 810 miles on 15.5 Gallons of diesel. As much as I love my Jetta, I would gladly trade if for something that is a bit cleaner not only to the environment but to the mechanic to work on as well. soot sucks. (provided I didn't lose any of that nice torquey feel)
All I can say is that you won't like working for your new 'corporation'.
You mean like calling the year 2000 the first year of the new millennium?
"one of the consultants I knew told me that his role on the project was to voice unpleasant truths, and he did." Ahhhhh, and the keyword in this is CONSULTANT. Managment doesn't truly want this person onboard permanently. Instead, we'll take someone who is temporarily there, pay them BUTTLOAD$ and deal with them for a few months. After they leave it's back to business as usual.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 020 The article and the email that went out to employees.
Intel just canned 1000 MANAGERS and not 1000 IT people?
Which bozo post-dated the article by 3 days then released it on the net?? Tomorrow's "Versatilest" or today's "regular" manager?
That's amazing. Many companies use this 1-year non-comp clause in their employment agreements that are usually nothing more than a way to lock employees into working for their company and effectively holding them hostage to whatever salary range that they originally agree. Only those select few individuals that make god-like salaries have the ability to quit a job, wait a year, then start with a new company.
No, it was quite a bit different six years ago . . . . nowdays there are many of us who were born here who are actually looking at alternative places to live. The (&*(*(#)&$#@$!'n Bush administration has turned this place into mother russia as it was 25 years ago.
Make no mistake, you ARE an IMMIGRANT, NOT an illegal alien, undocumented worker, etc.
. . . millions of voices cried out in terror, and then suddenly silenced.
Storing source and destination information regarding calls is much more realistic than maintaing complete copies of all data ever transported across the net. I mean think about it, what is the netspeed upto these days?? Several terabytes a minute? Bandwidth vs storage is two different things. Now mind you, if they are culling and selectively storing data . . . . . be afraid.
Besides, in the last dozen or so years haven't we already had a couple of new political parties crop up? United We Stand party, etc? They don't seem to have been very effective.
What's the big deal? Let's see, government is monitoring my personal debt load, not something that they should have any business in.
The fact that you would be alarmed should Homeland Security NOT be monitoring you illustrates the polarity of opinions that exist in our country. Over the course of the last 6 years we went from a country where the idea of illegal wiretapping caused scandal to one where government openly says they are monitoring individuals finances, contacts, movements, etc. Freedoms are slowly (quickly) being eroded in the name of security and in short order the united states is going to resemble Germany just prior to WWII.
Privacy, yes, I agree that there is very little. But perhaps we've come to this level of lack of privacy due to a lack of enough people opposing it.
We are on a slope going the wrong direction. Once again I will requote Ben Franklin; "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." This SO applies to our times.
I don't get the hype. I own a stock 2000 TDI Jetta and on my last cross country trip I averaged 52.25 MPG. Mind you, I don't have a 200HP electric motor tied to the front axles so my acceleration isn't neck snapping, but it sure beats the hell out of the kia i used to own.
Another article indicated that they used bio-d to comply with rules regarding emissions for the competition they were in.
Yes, however go to any large corporation and apply for an engineering job, or any sort of technical job for that matter . . . . If you don't have a degree, you don't stand a chance in hell of even getting in the door. Even if you DO get in, then it's more an issue of playing office politics rather than being given an opportunity to actually create something useful . . . or waiting for the shark in the next cube to snake the credit for your work.
Books don't break! (Generally speaking)
Lemme guess, you've got one for sale still? Missed the last spike?