On Nov 6, 7:01 pm, GB wrote:
wrote in news:1194387439.920316.182900@
50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

This makes it clear why your response was so brain-dead and ill-
informed... management school, that says it all!

Well, it's good to see that you've taken the time to deliver a
detailed analysis of exactly which bits were "brain dead" and
"ill informed". Thanks for that.

I stand by my previous statements. You're whining because you
don't like change and because you think the world owes you
something.

GB
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I'm doing nothing of the sort, neither whining nor complaining. I
don't work for Boeing anymore, and am only offering observations on
what is going on there.

You are offering up nothing but a bunch of psychobabble pablum that
you are regurgitating from the lame management classes that you took.
The "who moved my cheese" crap is just a poor way of trying to soft
sell layoffs and job cuts rather than just being honest with people.

The problem with the latest crop of US management is that they are a
bunch of imagination deficient clones of the paradigm du jour that is
being peddled in college business schools. If you really want a
dynamic workforce, you need to learn how to truly motivate people and
stop treating them like expenses that need to be controlled, which
seems to be the current philosophy. Managers tend to be way overpaid
for what they do, while individual contributors who make things happen
are getting a smaller and smaller slice of the corporate pie.

One of the latest favorite corporate fads is to use forced ranking so
that you always have a bottom dwelling person in the rankings who will
lose their job unless they "improve", regardless of how well they
actually are doing their job. Its all relative to their peers, and
the difference can be slight (HP, GE, etc). Often it becomes
impossible for them to improve their status, so they get shoved out
the door and the corporation winds up wasting money on recruiting a
replacement, workforce training, etc. etc. This technique creates an
environment of political maneuvering, backbiting, and discourages team
efforts. I suppose they have been teaching this gem of a management
technique in school lately as well; the Jack Welch school of
management.

No, I'm just glad that I'm an engineer who actually contributes real
goods to the betterment of society, and not some parasitic management
type who thinks that they have all the answers and love to lecture on
the crap that they were spoon fed in their "management school". Lets
see you solve a multi-variable differential equation. No? Stick with
cheese then...