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  • It’s the “not handling” part that gets us as kids. We knew better. Adults didn’t. In my case, I was in high school, but it was on a “Teacher workday, student holiday” we had each semester. I watched it live on NASA TV, which we had on channel UHF 55 in the DC area. Even the voice of mission control delayed about a minute or two. I remember thinking, “THAT didn’t look good…” but then they said nothing but normal speed and temp readings, so I thought it was just the angle of the chase plane. Only when the famous “forked cloud” appeared that the announcer said, “we have an apparent major malfunction,” or something.








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    12 days ago

    One of the things I have learned is that a lot of middle management don’t have tangible roles, so they make up for this by recognition, which is usually “presence.” So they have meetings to be seen, stay relevant, and look important. Like, how do you measure management as a product? It’s a social game, primarily. I’m not saying all or any large percentage of management is like this, but there are a LOT.

    “What do you say you DO here, exactly…?” And they start to sweat.

    Edit: Clarifying I know there ARE effective ways for an organization to do this, but that doesn’t mean they do or even know how :/




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