thought on politics
Posted by rick Mon, 15 May 2006 12:33:00 GMT
One does not distill truth from politics—one instead becomes drunk on self-righteousness.
thought on hiring
Posted by rick Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:29:00 GMT
There’s a saying about how people hire that goes, “A’s hire A’s and B’s hire C’s.”
Turns out the saying is incomplete—the full saying is, “A’s hire A’s and B’s hire C’s and C’s hire at random.”
I’m pretty sure there’s a corollary about firing that goes something like “A’s don’t fire, but B’s fire A’s, and C’s fire at random”.
There’s something about Parkinson’s Law that makes me wonder about these rules of thumb, but they seem to be pretty accurate out in the workplace.
