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In my experience in over fifty years, I have observed that the type of person who earns a BBA or an MBA and aims to rise into corporate management often becomes a problem rather than becoming an asset. Many have either an ego problem or a hubris problem or both. The Business Administration coursework leans heavily on case studies and simple-case problems. They usually start in sales, marketing, or finance. They have little-to-no practical experience in the complexity of running a real enterprise. Their best skill is selling themselves to human resources and middle management -- employees who are desperate for someone to fix the mess left behind by the last idiot they hired and who just left to screw up another company. They think they know what they are doing, but in reality, they are starting way out of their depth.
A few of these BBA and MBA idiots will survive and even thrive, but most will move on to another company, leaving a significant amount of damage to the company they are leaving.
Why does upper management allow this to happen? Because upper management consists of those that thrived and learned. Often, they have the eternal optomism of a salesman or a marketeer.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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They had a really great conductor.
I'll get my coat.
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First thing I thought
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I hear the performance was electric.
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Nah, it was all just power chords.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We're going to react violintly.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Good one, Sander
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 1,116 X/6
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
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⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
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Wordle 1,116 5/6*
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
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Trap if I've ever seen one, was going alphabetically .
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Wordle 1,116 5/6*
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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After your second guess I can only see two possibilities - I'm interested to know what your other guess was
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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For my fourth guess, I thought I'd try my second guess again in case it worked this time. That or I'm an idiot - one of the two, possibly both ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nope, you defaulted to "software developer" mode.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 1,116 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 1,116 5/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
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Nicely symmetric!
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Wordle 1.116 4/6
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
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I was about to try the 4th right away
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Wordle 1,116 5/6*
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Wordle 1,116 5/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 1,116 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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And I fully understand where he's coming from. To illustrate his point, he comments:
"I always got annoyed at Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake — it’s a great movie. It’s really exciting. But I hated the fact they called it Dawn of the Dead , because that was George [Romero]’s film. They could have called it Deadish , which was a great line in the film that one of the actors used, and it still would have been a great film, but when you just take a title because people recognize it, it’s so disrespectful to the original."
Ummm...Star Trek?
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With very few exceptions Hollywood remakes are awful*. I could make a list of the truly bad ones but I have limited time, it still wouldn't be complete and my fingers would likely cramp up. Instead I'll make a list of the only good ones:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 w/ Donald Sutherland)
Scarface (1983 w/ Al Pacino)
The Fly (1986 w/ Jeff Goldblum)
*Seems like every generation feels the need to remake "A Star is Born".
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Hollywood isn't much better at first versions, either. I enjoy the Jack Ryan stories from Tom Clancy, but aside from the original Hunt for Red October, not one of the movies supposedly based upon any of his other books even remotely resembles the book in plot of casting. It's as if somebody liked the title and made a movie, but never got around to reading the actual book!
Will Rogers never met me.
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