Comments on: Teaching the manatee to leap http://cultureby.com/2006/09/teaching_the_ma.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/09/teaching_the_ma.html/comment-page-1#comment-3984 Grant Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:19:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=616#comment-3984 Dilys, oh, that's perfect, driving the bad angels out of heaven, let's get this on the corporate agenda. And people said there was no place for religion in the boardroom! Thanks, Grant Dilys, oh, that’s perfect, driving the bad angels out of heaven, let’s get this on the corporate agenda. And people said there was no place for religion in the boardroom! Thanks, Grant

]]> By: dilys http://cultureby.com/2006/09/teaching_the_ma.html/comment-page-1#comment-3983 dilys Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:37:13 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=616#comment-3983 IMO the most interesting question of our time. What is the environment, the script & presuppositions that drive real life in the real world under stress and demand to perform with excellence, creativity, and stamina? When there are so many incentives, or at least no penalty, to go numb and perform badly. It's clear to me the obverse, in most government undertakings (including public schools), is in wide-screen display. So that more pay, perks, even prestige, wouldn't allow the creative and excellent to flourish very long. A smart, busy, personable, public-spirited man of my acquaintance was willing to run for a community college board. After a couple of exploratory meetings, he sadly reported the dynamics and other players were deployed so that nothing useful would be accomplished. On another, funnier note, I just heard that a group of nuns administering a major enterprise in my city have a way of getting rid of bad employees: they hide a St. Michael medal in the non-performer's office, in homage to the Archangel's having driven the bad angels out of heaven. Better than some Human Resources measures. Maybe the museum has a mojo-emitting object for that purpose. IMO the most interesting question of our time. What is the environment, the script & presuppositions that drive real life in the real world under stress and demand to perform with excellence, creativity, and stamina? When there are so many incentives, or at least no penalty, to go numb and perform badly.

It’s clear to me the obverse, in most government undertakings (including public schools), is in wide-screen display. So that more pay, perks, even prestige, wouldn’t allow the creative and excellent to flourish very long.

A smart, busy, personable, public-spirited man of my acquaintance was willing to run for a community college board. After a couple of exploratory meetings, he sadly reported the dynamics and other players were deployed so that nothing useful would be accomplished.

On another, funnier note, I just heard that a group of nuns administering a major enterprise in my city have a way of getting rid of bad employees: they hide a St. Michael medal in the non-performer’s office, in homage to the Archangel’s having driven the bad angels out of heaven.

Better than some Human Resources measures. Maybe the museum has a mojo-emitting object for that purpose.

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