Here’s what will happen:

A big personality will have convinced the powers-that-be that he can make a difference. He just needs to enact his special game plan.

The new year will start and the plan enacted. People will move, scores will be settled.

Then they’ll take their new recipe for the same cow patty, ball it up, and throw it against the wall. It won’t stick. It will run down the wall and slump to the floor as always.

They’ll adjust this strategy throughout the year. Same effect, with more score settling.

At the end of the year, the cycle will begin anew with a new big personality.

Watch and see.

Spot on. OP: @16v+1kdadhpwr

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They were completely un-educated in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and every other field related to the design and production of large complex software projects.

Photographers and Foresters are not trained to be CTOs. They did the best they could.

"If you’ve experienced the days of The Photographer, you’ve seen it. If you’ve experienced the days of The Forester, you’ve seen it. "

Those two educated fools su-ked the life out of SAS.

Why would this crop of big personalities be any different?

Because, in this day and age, those in charge can do no wrong.

If you’ve experienced the days of The Photographer, you’ve seen it. If you’ve experienced the days of The Forester, you’ve seen it. Why would this crop of big personalities be any different?

@ck It wasn't even OP conjecture. It was reposted from someone else’s conjecture.

You seem to belittle me because I choose not to participate in unfounded conjecture. LOL. I have plenty of it. I just choose not to speak about things I don’t have sufficient information on. Keep on keeping on.

@an Of course it’s not an argument. Arguments require facts, and in this situation, none of us have the facts.

@OP has posted a reasonable conjecture. You have not even done that much, only attacked others’ ideas without contributing any of your own.

@ae someone may well have…. Someone may well have…. But if that is the plan…

Yeah great argument.

No secret love children will be affected by this. They’ve failed upwards, at least twice. They will try to convince you that “they’ve earned it”.

And herein lies one of the problems with working for this company. There is an illusion of merit-based advancement, without a real connection to real business metrics.

Not stealing. This was worth reposting. Someone may well have offered a plan to cut costs by eliminating middle managers. If so, upper management may well have thought that a great plan.

But if that is the plan, it will only work a limited number of times.

@OP yeah that was totally worth stealing from someone else and reposting…

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