This is pretty typical in middle management across the board.
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Mark Carney's Davos speech in a nutshell.
That was your takeaway? Not the "~~rules~~ based international order"?
Just go listen to it again. His speech is full of such meaningless phrases that sound smart or inspiring. That's all they are. And he's full of hot air, because after that speech he came back to Canada and told our government to support the U.S.'s attack on Iran and to back the U.S. in their endeavour of becoming an energy superpower.
So yeah.
This is basically how evolution works. It's goal is not necessarily 'better' or some goal- it's just iterating forward. Always just forward. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, always forward.
Upper management decides the direction. Selective pressure determines if 'forward' is good or bad. In the absence of competition, selective pressure is eliminated and the only pressure is maximuze profit- leading to enshittification.
”To increase profit we need to make more money”
This was said by a C-level suite at my work. Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
I know Scott Adams is not someone to be promoted for his personal views, but Dilbert is so much a reflection of reality it's unreal.
Same when they interview coaches after a game.
“What do you think went wrong, and what can you do to improve it”
“Well, I think mainly our problem was, we didn’t score more points than the opposing team. That was a major contributing factor to our loss. I think in the future, we need to focus more on scoring more points, and not allowing the opposing team to score more points than us.”
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The more common way these guys increase profit is by lowering costs, and the only way they've figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people, so this is actually a step in the right direction at least.
Now I'm wondering whether their solution is to appeal to more customers or to raise prices. What am I saying. Of course it's the latter.
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C suites are now infested with a circle jerk of MBAs, business minded people who dont understand or care about the product or how its made. MBAs are a plague, let the engineers who know a damn thing sit at the table please...
Wdym now it's always been like this
Engineers: Hmm, maybe we should get someone with a bit of market knowledge to the table.
MBA: Shit, I have no clue what they're talking about. I need someone who speaks my language.
MBA 2: Man, these engineers really have no clue what we're talking about, huh.
Engineers: removed
Plenty of engineers struggle to care about the right things too though. You can witness this in Linux communities. The engineers will engage in passion-project rewrites of core systems any day of the week over fixing that one annoying UI bug that thousands of users complain endlessly about.
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I remember borrowing a friend's MBA textbook just for laughs. I particularly remember the chapter on "Negotiating", which included a boxed section that said "Your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations."
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"I don't recommend Flatulia."
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"They haven't sent a 30-something hottie around to take me to lunch yet."
“How good you are at something will dictate how good you are at that thing.”
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Reminds me of Peggy Hill:
The day before Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, one of the busiest travel days of the year.
One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.
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This reminded me of something. When I was in college, I was forced to buy several incompetently-written textbooks. One of them was on death and dying. A chapter on funerary customs had in the first paragraph the observation that in most societies, when a person dies, they are removed from their home.
Most nonfiction books I have read would have been better written if they were ¼ the amount of words
Brevity is a sign of good writing.
What's wrong with that? In some cultures, when someone died, they were prepared and then buried under the floor boards. In others, relatives were mummified and kept on display for years.
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I choose to believe this is some sort of shibboleth
like throwing the most inane business speak at each other somehow confirms that they are a real business person and not some guy in a suit that would never think to say something so vapid and devoid of actual meaning
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Progress is moving forwards to the target destination. If you take a wrong turn in the fork you might still be moving forward but not progressing.
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The MBA class
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