If you are inclined to read random stuff that is
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/fea...5.florida.html
It would be interesting to do a similar study in New Zealand.
Forum whore
If you are inclined to read random stuff that is
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/fea...5.florida.html
It would be interesting to do a similar study in New Zealand.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Deus ex ukulele
An interesting post. I've read about this before but for the life of me can't remember where! It all demonstrates the value of diversity -- "hybrid vigour" if you will. I can imagine a few redneck xenophobes getting what's left of their knickers in a knot over this.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Man, you are too square.
Interesting. Also quite logical: If you want your company to keep developing, you need creative people who 'think outside the box'. People who are best at thinking laterally tend not to be the ones who think (and dress and act) like everyone else. Provide an environment where 'oddballs' feel comfortable, and they'll come up with 'odd' ideas that solve the problems you've been struggling with for years.
I've always admired the Japanese approach, where they think in terms of years rather than the next quarters profits and no further, and put a lot of money into seemingly ridiculous R&D, like football-playing robots. The stupid-seeming projects quite often give rise to stuff that can be commercialised, because they've had to solve certain problems to get them to work, and these solutions can be migrated into useful technology.
Der gummikuh man
The problem is it also normally takes a while for the oddballs to come up with good ideas... This is not good for a management system focussed on surviving year to year, and why the CRI structure for government scientific agencies (the old DSIR now HortResearch, Landcare Research, ESR and Crop and Food Research) is fundamentally flawed....
Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....
Deus ex ukulele
You have my full and undivided attention if you would like to explain this thesis...Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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