How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

[Jeff Kinz]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:16:44PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/15/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> > I really doubt the Oasis group is clueless, and even if they were Greg
> > would filter that ...
> 
>   It may be that the hiring manager at the Oasis group is clueless.
> 
>   Group's are neither clueless nor clueful.  People are.  Groups do
> not do things; individuals do.  A group may contain many clueful
> people doing good things (or clueless people doing evil things, or
> whatever), but that does not mean one can know everything about $GROUP
> or any arbitrary member of it  simply by knowing something about one
> or some of its members.

True, but to some degree the phenomena of "groupthink" does effectively
exist at some organizations generating a fair facsimile of cluelessness.

> 
>   This is part of what I call this "the myth of the organization". 
> Organizations are a myth; they don't exist in reality.


> 
> -- Ben "This statement is false" Scott
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