[lbo-talk] What They Teach You at Harvard Business School

[Miles Jackson]

shag wrote:
> At 10:53 PM 8/20/2008, Miles Jackson wrote:
>> shag wrote:
>>
>>> but i can see how all of that works, in any b-school, it teaches you 
>>> to get really really comfortable living in your own alternate 
>>> reality. because that's what most of these guys do.
>>
>> To be fair--isn't that what we're doing here?
>>
>> Miles
>
> hmmm. i see your point. but there's something distinctly different 
> about this reality. it is _impervious_ to correction. it is 
> practically always built on a thorough inability to consider the world 
> from someone else's point of view. it is a complete denial of anyone's 
> reality besides your own. it is an ability to completely forget, if 
> you were once in the trenches....
>
>
Yeah, there's a lot of that going around.  As much as I like to poke fun 
at the MBA types, it's endemic to our society.   Interesting 
sociological question:  can an industrial society be sustained if people 
repeatedly ignore evidence inconsistent with their own assumptions?

Miles