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It's nice to see people are catching on to the difference between cults and their mere (but still torturous and harmful-to-business) offspring - cultish thinking. Why do we live with this? How have we - Americans - grown accustomed to it? 

  It's a pretty standard collection of corporate psychology types, none of whom have any obvious connection to Scientology (or to Landmark, a quasi-cult,…)

...It's just a semi-extreme version of the kind of "management philosophy" you'll find in a lot of companies today--walks like a cult, talks like a cult, almost definitely isn't,…

I used to try and explain that distinction, and the experience, all the time. Nice to see we're getting somewhere. (But when will we make a connection between corporate cultish thinking and our lousy business climate? I don't want to work in these places, with anyone into the mind set, or buy their products.) It's also nice to see people are catching on to The Landmark Forum finally:

But it's still disappointing it isn't Lululemon or Panda Express,...

And Now - Time For Something We Don't See Very Often

A feminist from Human Resources was publicly branded a liar.

According to reports, behind the scenes, applause broke out,...

 

Splitting The Adam

 

It doesn't matter that few in politics share my concerns, because I'm still in good company:

"David Colquhoun, professor of pharmacology at University College London for 30 years, has lately led a double life. In his day job, he has pioneered painstaking research into the binding properties of molecules and contributed extensively to understanding the particular influences on ion channel function in the development of drugs. In his after-hours alter ego, however, he is the take-no-prisoners scourge of quackery and mumbo-jumbo in his unmissable blog, DC's Improbable Science. 

For a decade or more, no homeopath or acupuncturist has been safe from Professor Colquhoun's scathing, and often comic, online analysis. No newspaper report of the latest carcinogen – sausages or coffee or cheese – can survive his statistical scrutiny. He wages rigorous war against the march of managerialism and corporate speak through academia and the NHS. And, at 76, you would have to say he rather enjoys it."

 I'll take these professors - over any of the others I know - any day,...

 

Exposing It All (For Your Pleasure Alone) Part III

The Sleepless Elite: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done.

Book Review: The Eichmann Trial



The Management Myth: MOST OF MANAGEMENT THEORY IS INANE,...IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS, DON’T GET AN M.B.A. STUDY PHILOSOPHY INSTEAD.

Salvador Dalí and the Jews.

?Know Beliefs?: Cracking The Whip (This one's about TMR but why let that stop me?)

Glenn Reynolds: Being Broke Ain't Ever Funny

When I'm right, I'm right.

A while back I took Glenn Reynolds to task for claiming those who quit their jobs without another lined up were engaging in "funemployment".

My reasoning? As long as we refuse to acknowledge the damage done by (what I call) NewAge Maharishi management, then we can't look down on anyone who'd rather quit than endure it.

Then I used an example from England - specifically from outside the United States - to make my point. (This didn't get a post from Reynolds because - like the mainstream media - Reynolds doesn't acknowledge criticism from outside his clique.) Now comes this story about the NewAge-oriented BBC:

The BBC wastes £80million a year through bad management and paying allowances to staff who do not qualify for them, a leaked internal report has revealed.

The Corporation is looking for deep cuts after the licence fee was frozen for six years last October; a deal that also handed it responsibility for funding the World Service and the BBC Monitoring Service.

But poor management of under-performing staff and salary top-up payments to thousands of employees who do not qualify are costing the state-controlled broadcaster millions of pounds in licence-fee payers' money.

Exactly - and it doesn't surprise me it's been discovered at the cultish, pro-brainwashing, pro-Global Warming theory/pro-NewAge quackery/pro-fraud BBC.

But, I'm sure, it's even worse in the business environment of our current "go green" America. We are strangling ourselves - which, I'm sure, Reynolds would agree with - but why and how it's happening, he doesn't understand, and relies on ridiculing those caught in it instead.

I, for one, expect more out of the world of law professors than that. As The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto said yesterday, about the outrageous comments of philosophy professor Brian Leiter:

The reason we find Leiter's comments amusing rather than disgusting is that we,...are not part of academia and thus have no personal investment in the ideal of disinterested and honest scholarship. Rather than offend our ideals, Leiter reinforces our stereotype of academia as being filled with fools and knaves.

Unfortunately, those in academia rarely do otherwise for me either, but I'm not laughing.

Blaming The Wrong People, Asking The Wrong Questions, Forgiving All The Wrong Acts: You People Can't Seem To Do Anything RIGHT!!!

"OUCH: Workers say Obama treated autos worse than Wall St.

DETROIT (AP) — Many assembly line autoworkers reacted with skepticism and anger Monday to the Obama administration’s tough tactics, which stoked long-simmering feelings that the people who put the country on wheels get treated differently than the wizards of Wall Street. . . . Many workers — not generally known for their affection toward executives — even sympathized with Rick Wagoner, who was forced to step down as chief executive of General Motors Corp. He was by turns called a 'sacrificial lamb,' 'scapegoat' and 'fall guy.'

And Rick Wagoner was fired not because he did a bad job, but because Obama wanted to look tough. Is that the kind of management that will get us out of this problem?"

-- Glenn Reynolds, still asking the stupid questions - while Ann Althouse is demanding another loser be forgiven for ripping off the public - which, apparently, is how you win today's online popularity contests known as president, blogger, or Instapundit.