Amen to that first paragraph. > both of the worst bullshitters I've ever met were in academia - and the business world has been a breath of fresh air in compar

Amen to that first paragraph. > both of the worst bullshitters I've ever met were in academia - and the business world has been a breath of fresh air in comparison. I've had the opposite experience. One example was a company with bicoastal research operations: A fairly high-level manager had the west-coast operations convinced that he was pretty consumed working the east-coast ops and could spend only a little time with the people in the west. In a parallel development, he had the east-coast operations convinced that he was pretty consumed working the west-coast ops and could spend only a little time with the people in the east. The company pretty much melted down before specific action was taken against him.