Comments on: Managers come from the same stultified society as the managed

By: Bomag

Bomag — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:06:54 +0000

“are you suggesting that industrialization and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race?”

Too soon to tell.

It has brought us nice things, but it might not allow us to keep nice things.

By: RLVC

RLVC — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:40:43 +0000

Bomag, are you suggesting that industrialization and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race?

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:34:30 +0000

I found the article’s example a bit curious: Sanitary Commission from the Civil War, where some strong-willed individuals created a new bureaucracy.

I’ve been told the Civil War turbocharged the shift of political power from local, individual control to consolidating such in the central federal capitol; thus empowering bureaucrats and technocrats over the local guy in the marketplace of ideas.

By: RLVC

RLVC — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:27:14 +0000

In our dreams … people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.

We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things that their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:29:10 +0000

The thing to note here is that productive collaborations assemble themselves from individuals that manage to connect with others of equal merit.

The hard part is finding others worthy of working together with as peers.