Skeptic Project

http://www.cracked.com/article_18777_5-scientific-reasons-powerful-people-will-always-suck.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrackedRSS+%28Cracked%3A+All+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Yup :(

Well this gives us some insight into Peter's and Jacques' minds, as well as anyone else in a position of power. But I guess we already knew most of it

Nice analysis. This goes to show why it can be a danger to people's pursuit to happiness in the long run relying on a group or person to have monopoly power or too much power over them. On the other hand, people can simply just have options for themselves personally and where their choices for happiness aren't ruling over other lives who did not choose it. As for people with power as far as money and wealth, certain people are not fit for it.

Leadership is a balance between giving people what they need, and what they want.

@CyborgJesus I would also throw in why do they not question RBE, and how is RBE any better then the system we have now and not just simply because it's different.

Watching folk in other organisations climb the ladder, the one thing I notice they do a lot of is agree with whatever the person above them says.

Its perhaps interesting to note that many of these people, once in positions of power, then just give up doing anything, its as if they have won a prize and go and find another one to get elsewhere.

I remember in my last 9 to 5 job, being told at a management meeting that by speaking up against top management by pointing out their errors in what they was talking about, that I was ruining my career. I replied that I didn't care about my career, I just wanted to do a good job, and if that meant telling the head honcho that the report he is reading from says 30% when he is saying 90%, he is either lying, or cannot read, as I have a copy of the exact same report in my hand too! (I bumped into the person who did the report and asked them for a copy before the meeting, a common tactic I employ to make sure I have the same facts to hand as those making the big decisions..)

It was a bit like a panto moment, when she would say '90%' and I'd stand up and say in a loud voice '30%', she'd then repeat herself, and so would I!

Eventually playing my trump card of waving my copy of the report, at which point she asked me where I got that!

After I pointed out I got it from the engineer who compiled it that morning before the meeting, she shut up and sat down, but looked awfully angry at me :-)

I was championing the workforce as management said the lifts worked 90% of the time, whilst the offical engineer report said they only worked 30% of the time..

As such, we got new lifts :-)

I'm sure you've heard me tell the story of how the lifts was measured in inches and ordered in centimetres.. :-)