feral management

TRX
January 3, 2012
72:
> (a) you don't set out to hire
> psychopaths, because you can't build
> teams around them,

Senior corporate management typically don't work in teams. In all of the examples I'm personally conversant with, each operates his own department as absolute ruler.

"Teams" generally stay down at the grunt level, where employees are disposable. Use them once, flush, get a new set for the next project.

TRX
January 5, 2012
221:
> Everyone who does the political
> compass quiz ... You'd have to be
> Adolf Hitler to come out as anything
> but libertarian.

Say Heil to the King, baby!

You need to widen your circle of acquaintances, Charlie... and I'm considered "moderate" for the groups I normally run with.

TRX
January 7, 2012
269:
> Basically, they had no interest in
> being there. They were, at best,
> mostly civilian conscripts

The cultural gap between 1939 and 2012 may be wider than you think.