Cargo Cult Management

Re:Cargo Cult Management by krakensden on Sunday June 21, 2009 @02:37PM (#667632)

Here comes the requisite five minute manager hate.

If the suits are so incompetent, why are they in charge of everything? Perhaps they aren't optimizing for what you think they're optimizing?

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Re:Cargo Cult Management by rbanffy on Sunday June 21, 2009 @05:43PM (#667840)

Probably because a lot of smart people find doing other things less managerial more rewarding.

Every time I have to fill a spreadsheet that could be generated by a computer program, I die a little.

Or, as pg could put it, sometimes a promotion into management resembles being scheduled for daily waterboarding sessions. Being dragged into a cargo cult is no fun.

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Re:Cargo Cult Management by mspeiser on Sunday June 21, 2009 @05:25PM (#667827)

I'm not attacking the suits, just managers who lack intellectual honesty and the appreciation for the difference between causation and correlation.

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