[Sequoyah101]

In my time corpocracy was fixated on organizational learning, smart systems, lessons learned archives. A google like system where you didn't need to know much, just how to look up answers based on past activities. No mention at all was made of actually knowing how to execute a solution let alone know it or create it. The systems never did work out.

Organizations don't know and remember things. People do. I think it is still that way. A google answer is just window dressing without experience or understanding. Maybe just a good starting place but somebody still has to do the work.

Yeah, a metaphor for America where nobody is responsible and nobody ever did anything wrong.

[Sequoyah101]

“Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving the company.

The guy who is now fish food thought the same thing about actual, real, experienced engineers when it came to building his little submarine coffin. Sounds like we have the same kind of guy building airplanes for public consumption at Boing [sic].

America, proving you can't just live on your past accomplishments.

[linMcHlp]

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