>On Nov 15, 2006, at 6:50 PM, bitch wrote:
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>>um. yeah. ok. thanks (i guess) for that Carl. I would have never
>>paid an ounce of attention to this man were it not for you! grrrrrr.
>
>The executive crowd, from the CEO level deep into middle management,
>takes him very seriously. He does their cognitive mapping.
>
>Doug
I believe that. These people -- and granted I only ever work with the small fries -- love this empty-headed nonsense, soundbites, info-chunks. twaddle. will have to get out the classic, Robert Jackall's _MOral Mazes_, on the way language works among these folks. He nailed it a couple of decades ago in a sociological study of the way bureaucracy under capitalism is structured to produce the Enrons of the world.
Nonetheless, *I* don't have to pay attention to him, on the principle of there are more important things and a phenom. called information overload. *sigh* But, thanks to Carl, I read him every damn time I see him mentioned, only to want to stab a rusty jack knife in my eyes so I don't have to read another line of corn pone for the B school set.
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