Management
people Making A Living by creating low-value tasks for other people, then complaining
- those tasks take too long
- those tasks aren't done well
- nothing seems to ever get done around here
People who Want A Pony. (But then, don't we all?)
Alan Turing: No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain! All I’m after is a mediocre brain, something like the President of AT&T.
They said, ‘Taylor, you have to look for the note within the note.” I said, ‘OK, but why don’t you just give me the note?’ They looked at me dead seriously and said, ‘Well we don’t know what the note is.'”
"I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability."
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1924-beware-managers-with-free-time
"No smoking. No spitting. -- The Mgt." (Markoff Chaney the MidGeT)
see related
- Command and Control
- Middle Management
- wife (Women)
- Carnivale character http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/
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