Gore v. Bush; there is a difference

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Mon Nov 6 16:31:56 PST 2000



>>His second flaw was that he thought like a management consultant. A
management consultant's principal goal is to win a debate in front of his employer, the senior decision maker, the "Principal." You win a debate by making intellectual arguments, controlling the flow of information to the senior decision maker, walling-off potential adversaries from the process, and winning the confidence of the Principal by telling him things that he likes to hear: that he is smart, that his goals can be achieved, that the nay-sayers just don't grasp the issues....For a management consultant, it doesn't matter if everyone else in the organization hates your guts as long as the Principal--the CEO--is convinced, for the CEO is the boss and can then make things happen.

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Yet one of the bazillion reasons capitalism is a cesspool of aspiring fascists who use libertarianism as a foil to keep on getting away with this kind of anti-social behavior. It's just like Frank Zappa said; the 3 most dangerous letters in a democracy are MBA.

Ian



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