Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
In business as well as in all walks of life, people will make decisions to change the course of their enterprises, or the course of the ventures placed under their stewardship, if and only if
1. They feel empowered to do so.
2. They feel authorized to do so, which is slightly different from the question of feeling empowered.
3. They perceive that they, personally, are likely to experience a net gain from the change in direction. I say “net” because by & large, most changes in direction start out at a cost to the person who instigates them. They have to make it big to break even.
Now, we have certain “Dagny Taggart” personality types who can be relied upon to instigate this change of direction, when it’s called for, consequences be damned. And we have other personality types who are the opposite, Lord knows. Bureaucrats, bred to the bone. If the rulebook says plow the ship into that iceberg, then that’s what we’re gonna do. But this question of personality-type is simply a sway upon question #2, and maybe #1. The triad of questions is really what drives the decision-point, within all of us.
All three tumblers have to click into place before the lock can be opened. If the lock is opened, creativity is applied, and if it isn’t it isn’t.
Without that, people will just follow the rules. And here is your explanation for Robert Conquest’s Second Rule of Politics: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left wing.” It isn’t because group-think turns conservatives into liberals (although there’s something to that). People simply lose their incentive to think independently. They color a little bit out of the lines, they get their noses poked for it, they do it again, they get poked again, repeat a few times…and then they say, y’know what? It just isn’t worth it. I’m here to earn a paycheck. The third tumbler locks shut, then the second, then the first.
No more innovating.
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