On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Faustine wrote:
Great points, but consider the example Harvard University. People are
willing to pay a premium to be associated with it regardless of the academic
worth of the individual programs in the eyes of specialists. A lot of students
are after the cachet and
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
This is the reputation of a reputation.
As soon as people tumble to the fact that Tom Clancy has sold his
nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
their words, then the reputation of Tom Clancy falls.
Nothing new here. Fisher
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
By the way, a topic I talked about a month or two ago, the bogus nature
of the _Economics_ prize, has been in the news. Some of the descendants
of the Nobel family want the Economics prize to have no connection to
the name Nobel.
Their claim is that
At 10:17 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
As soon as people tumble to the fact that Tom Clancy has sold his
nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
their words, then the reputation of Tom Clancy falls.
I was coming to that conclusion thanks to the public
exchange
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:22 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Special agents should read the Economist in addition to NLECTC Law
Enforcement Corrections Technology News Summary
http://www.nlectc.org/.
http://WWW.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BX%28%2FQ%21%3B%26%0A
From: Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minimizing the risk of individuals within the organization is
not equivalent to optimizing the organization's performance.
Good one. Reminds me of the nobody got fired for buying IBM phrase I read
a few years ago.
Mark
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 09:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3 Dec 2001, at 13:44, Ken Brown wrote:
All the discussion about certificates of speaking Navajo or whatever
are
slightly beside the point. If personal reputation, as such, has a
market
value it isn't the money you'd
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Tim wrote:
This is the reputation of a reputation.
As soon as people tumble to the fact that Tom Clancy has sold his
nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
their words, then the reputation of Tom Clancy falls
Faustine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim wrote:
This is the reputation of a reputation.
Ridiculous how so many employers put such stock in a word on a piece of
paper
too--pure credentialism. How ironic when you contrast that with the
fact that
the great Herman Kahn didn't have a PhD. I wonder where he'd
At 03:39 PM 12/3/01 -0500, Faustine wrote:
Great points, but consider the example Harvard University. People are
willing to pay a premium to be associated with it regardless of the academic
worth of the individual programs in the eyes of specialists. A lot of students
are after the cachet and
...Someone once remarked that the most unimaginitive, laziest Harvard
graduate students at the bottom of their class tend to end up at the IMF
and UN. Sort of sinkholes of mediocrity. Oh well! ~Faustine.
Luckily we now have 'open source' AP to take out the ones that get to be
president.Did
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