Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... I disagree with Tom Levenson here: (a) Amy Qin and Chu Bailiang are not good reporters. (b) The New York Times has not “fallen into a trap”. It is aggressively misinforming its readers in pursuit of clickbait. Moral fault attaches to anyone who supports it: Thomas Levenson: ’I may teach this New York Times article in my science journalism class next year as a model of how to do it wrong
It certainly seems inescapable that local zoning laws which are for the purpose of NIMBYism have regressive, racist and environmentally disastrous consequences. But how do we keep from throwing out the baby with the bathwater? We need isolation of industrial hazards, walkable neighborhoods, SOME caps on density relative to available resources, and the like.
Re: Ed Zitron: The Remote Debate Shows The Brittle State of Modern Management
Spot on. You can see it in the panic in managers when staff wants to stay working remotely. Their sociopathic power-tripping is stymied. What are they to do now?
There was a brief period in the 1980s when hands-off managing was in vogue with Blanchard's "One-Minute Manager". This approach would have been ideal in remote work environments. But by the early 1990s, we had a slew of biz books about sociopathic management techniques that were more about wielding sticks than carrots. Coupled with corporate politicking and brown-nosing and almost corrupting fads like performance reviews of managers and the idea of actual managing went out the window. IMO, the accounting mentality resulted in staff cutting to boost profits rather than increasing performance, reinforcing the trend. The managers seemed better suited to being slave drivers on plantations than facilitating the performance of human resources.
It certainly seems inescapable that local zoning laws which are for the purpose of NIMBYism have regressive, racist and environmentally disastrous consequences. But how do we keep from throwing out the baby with the bathwater? We need isolation of industrial hazards, walkable neighborhoods, SOME caps on density relative to available resources, and the like.
Re: Ed Zitron: The Remote Debate Shows The Brittle State of Modern Management
Spot on. You can see it in the panic in managers when staff wants to stay working remotely. Their sociopathic power-tripping is stymied. What are they to do now?
There was a brief period in the 1980s when hands-off managing was in vogue with Blanchard's "One-Minute Manager". This approach would have been ideal in remote work environments. But by the early 1990s, we had a slew of biz books about sociopathic management techniques that were more about wielding sticks than carrots. Coupled with corporate politicking and brown-nosing and almost corrupting fads like performance reviews of managers and the idea of actual managing went out the window. IMO, the accounting mentality resulted in staff cutting to boost profits rather than increasing performance, reinforcing the trend. The managers seemed better suited to being slave drivers on plantations than facilitating the performance of human resources.