I feel like those scientists are overlooking the purpose of meetings: the boss wants to feel powerful.
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Businesses should be studied by anthropologists. I find most business behavior is better explained by asking what emotional needs it is meeting for the people in charge. It's really frustrating reading people who pretend the role of business is to make as much money as efficiently as possible, because that is absolutely not at all how it works. There are factions and feather-nesting and curry-favoring and consolidating power bases and a whole host of sociopolitical shennaingans constantly going on, especially as corporations grow.
But guess what? Businesses aren't going to pay an anthropologist to embed. No, they'll pay psychologists to come up with a bunch of science they will follow if it suits them and ignore if it doesn't.
In fact, I'd say one of the real problems oligopolies face is that allows them a large margin to be bad at business, meaning asskissers and social climbers have an enormous edge over people with product or content knowledge. This is a pretty commonly accepted phenomenon among royal courts through history, but we like to pretend businesses are rational creatures.
curry-favoring
I'm sorry, I can't sit here and let this go by. It's "favor currrying", or "currrying favor", with the latter being the common expression. Curry favoring is what I do at Thai restaurants.
Thanks. Once I reversed the order, I couldn't remember if it was curry being favored or favor being curried.
Well, both really.
And lets introduce curry flavoring into the mix.
Hast thou ne'er curry savored?
It doesn't mean nepotism in the south Asian community? (no offense intended)
Royal courts at least had jesters.
Though there was an interesting book I read years and years ago about corporate jesters.
I know someone who used to work for a major beer manufacturer and they had a corporate magician on staff lol
Most businessmen I know are fucking clowns, so that checks out.
Getting a business degree is simply the socially acceptable version of the underwater basket weaving trope that people complain about. It's only practical in the sense that people don't scorn it in the same way they do other niche topics. I would trust the intelligence of someone with a degree in medieval shoe making over a suit with an MBA.
I've said this before that MBAs teach people to make the worst decisions possible in any given situation. The critique of the frozen businessmen from Adventure Time is pretty spot on.
I wish he would talk less. The meetings would be half as long.
I tell my staff that if they won't talk on calls then I will. They have the power to shut me the hell up but rarely take it.
Engineers, in case you couldn't guess.
My name's not Science.
Who's gonna tell him?