On 09/23/2011 03:25 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: >> From what I can see, it doesn't really save them any money when you >> figure in travel& housing - in addition to a whole bunch of other >> problems they would not otherwise have. >> >> This is also not about hiring someone from overseas when they clearly >> are the best person or company for the job and not just to save money. > Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation for any phenomenon is most likely > to be true. > > Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can reasonably be > attributed to stupidity. > > Just because somebody is making policy decisions for a company--even a big > company--does not necessarily mean that they are particularly bright, or > even competent. Despite what certain ideologues would like to claim, > "meritocracy" doesn't really exist in business any more than it exists in > any other human endeavor. Businesspeople are not generally smarter or less > subject to what might be called "irrational" influences than any other > people. In all forms of endeavor, people very often rise to positions of > authority because they know whose posteriors to kiss and are good at > kissing them--and that's the only reason. > > So the question is a subset of the category, "Why do decision-makers do > boneheaded things?" > > Because most people are not very smart or very creative, and > decision-makers are representative of most people--not a special class. > Because people follow fads, even in--maybe especially in--business, where > if one person made a million dollars after jumping off a cliff because she > happened to get snagged on a root ten feet down that partially dislodged a > rock that revealed a vein of gold ore, then a thousand people will, without > investigating the facts, follow him off the cliff and land SPLAT on the > ground. > > Ken Dibble > www.stic-cil.org > >
Right on. I've seen entire industries put their money into lousy projects just because everyone else did. Jeff --------------- Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com (623) 582-0323 www.san-dc.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4e7f8e78.2070...@san-dc.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
