Comments on: Just Think About This For A Minute, Carefully http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/ You know more than me, we know more than you, and wherever this all going, we're going there together. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:09:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1952 Anonymous Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:41:03 +0000 http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1952 I can only think of some very serious mental environment degradation, likely irrepairable. Anybody BTW noticed in the "news" that the southern polar cap fractured itself couple weeks ago? And certain people are still enjoying their ocean waterfront. Hehe. I can only think of some very serious mental environment degradation, likely irrepairable. Anybody BTW noticed in the “news” that the southern polar cap fractured itself couple weeks ago? And certain people are still enjoying their ocean waterfront. Hehe.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1951 Anonymous Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:38:40 +0000 http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1951 Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And you had to somehow be "on alert", perhaps by understanding reasonably well, or be able to connect back to, or even just be thinking about ... your core values, because you could feel and see this coming. Congrats re: the process of finishing your MBA. Twenty years ago I couldn't finish .. decided 3/4 of the way through I wasn't getting anything valuable out of it. Fifteen years ago I was a compensation and leadership / organizational effectiveness / change consultant, and quit because the atmosphere and "attitude" - the whole jeejeezly mental model - was becoming such that you could guess where it was going. And I said, fuck it .. life's too short to spend most of your time pretending THIS is what it's about. Arguably, I'm still too caught up in it, given that I pay attention to things like Enterprise 2.0 and work design / organizational culture and learning issues. I manage my boundaries and engagement in ways that work for me. But I'm not objective. Then again, who is ? Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. And you had to somehow be “on alert”, perhaps by understanding reasonably well, or be able to connect back to, or even just be thinking about … your core values, because you could feel and see this coming.

Congrats re: the process of finishing your MBA. Twenty years ago I couldn’t finish .. decided 3/4 of the way through I wasn’t getting anything valuable out of it. Fifteen years ago I was a compensation and leadership / organizational effectiveness / change consultant, and quit because the atmosphere and “attitude” - the whole jeejeezly mental model - was becoming such that you could guess where it was going.

And I said, fuck it .. life’s too short to spend most of your time pretending THIS is what it’s about.

Arguably, I’m still too caught up in it, given that I pay attention to things like Enterprise 2.0 and work design / organizational culture and learning issues. I manage my boundaries and engagement in ways that work for me. But I’m not objective. Then again, who is ?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1950 Anonymous Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:17:32 +0000 http://blog.wirearchy.com/2008/04/16/just-think-about-this-for-a-minute-carefully/#comment-1950 Ten years ago I received my MBA. That two year program was the hardest thing I've ever faced because the fundamentals were so bizarre, so obviously pointed at yielding what we see today. During the last ten years we've seen every aspect of the economy gamed, every form of cheating and theft used in the name of the almighty market, yet no one is any closer to applying regulatory reins to stop this runaway train. Meanwhile, the President's family has purchased a hundred thousand hectare "get-away" in South America near the joint borders of Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. You can't make-up this kind of stuff. Ten years ago I received my MBA. That two year program was the hardest thing I’ve ever faced because the fundamentals were so bizarre, so obviously pointed at yielding what we see today. During the last ten years we’ve seen every aspect of the economy gamed, every form of cheating and theft used in the name of the almighty market, yet no one is any closer to applying regulatory reins to stop this runaway train. Meanwhile, the President’s family has purchased a hundred thousand hectare “get-away” in South America near the joint borders of Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. You can’t make-up this kind of stuff.

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