Making it All Up

[RickW]

Nov 10, 2015 14:10:22 GMT -5 brucemacneill said:

Nov 10, 2015 11:48:40 GMT -5 millring said:

I remember going back and taking my education courses as a forty-something adult. I was surprised more than perhaps I should have been at the "research", the conclusions of which were driving our education policies and practices. It was an incestuous mess of a system wherein the academia that was going to be the director of all education was driven by the need to come up with something new rather than what was effective. Novelty won every contest between what was tried and true and what sounded novel.

Don't feel bad. Management training was like that too.

Ah, yes, my fellow victim. I had a friend who acted as the business manager for the IT division for several years at the Telco where I worked. He had little stacks of paper neatly arranged on his desk. When the new boy came in, saying, "Bob, I have a great idea. We'll do x," Bob would point to a pile of paper, and say, "We tried that four years ago. There's the good and bad stuff."

Place I'm at now, they thrive on no process. The slogan shouted after today's company meeting, (very informal, a news update,) was "Fuck HR!" After having been through the corporate mill, you have to love it.