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After all knowledge is only a commodity, and students but knowledge capitalists in training.  And when you have global businesses you need global employees trained in identical ways doing the same thing in entirely consistent ways. One language, one behaviour pattern, one thought process, one  process...

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 09:31:24 AM EST
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Exactly.  Uuhhh, that's even scarier than I was thinking. Now, I'll be having nightmares.  Good thing its still morning here.  Maybe by tonight I'll forget.
by jjellin on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 09:47:04 AM EST
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a design of How to create "the right performance culture" inside and outside a corporate organization, from Foote, Matson, and Rudd, "Managing the knowledge manager", McKinsey Quarterly (2001)

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 11:57:16 AM EST
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Frank Schnittger:
students but knowledge capitalists in training.

i see them as greyhound whippets being trained for the track, where their trainers will bet on them...

...or money-making machines, shiny, glossy, active info-bank-ATM's, geared to unquestioningly feed the profits from their labour 'upstairs', while their own doubts about the process are rendered silent under a barrage of tantalising carrot-images, winning the lottery, 'making it big', philippe patek watches, the sailing channel, celebrity-obsession and the like.

consumer coma, in the sunset flare of a passing era.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 01:17:29 PM EST
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"where their trainers will bet on them"   wow . . .

"the sailing channel"  . . . help . . .

"tantalising carrot-images"  . . .  <keels over>

and, "the sunset flare of a passing era"  is just too timely for words today . . .  farewell Michael Jackson, icon of an age and true genius

by jjellin on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 09:15:30 PM EST
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