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So, culture preservation is important for success of highly technical endeavours. Don't tell it to your run of the mill MBA.
by SSLy 2y ago
So, culture preservation is important for success of highly technical endeavours. Don't tell it to your run of the mill MBA.
- basementcat 2y agoI think it is inevitable that organizational "culture" changes. The tricky part is figuring out exactly what parts need change and what parts don’t. For example JPL used to have beauty pageants ("Miss Guided Missile"). More recently, management appears to be trying to adopt policies and procedures from some venture funded commercial space companies. It is not clear how helpful these efforts will be given that these organizations are in fundamentally different businesses. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/slice-of-history-70th-anniversary-of-miss-guided-missile https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/slice-of-history-70th-annive...
- fnord77 2y ago[flagged]
- biofox 2y agoAs a male scientist and engineer, I am also on antidepressants :(
- ceejayoz 2y ago[flagged]
- malfist 2y agoI don't think having beauty pageants keep women from being depressed
- you_should_die 2y ago[dead]
- mistermann 2y agoI wonder what the fact of the matter is. It'd be rather hilarious if Humans have been shooting ourselves in the feet for the last few decades with many of our social engineering initiatives. And the reproduction rates chart is ugly.
- darby_nine 2y agoWho wants to bring a baby onto a sinking ship?
- Loudergood 2y agoExactly, it's simple economics.
- TimeBearingDown 2y agoModern information access seems to have led to the sinking ship feeling, across many of the most prosperous countries, and so effectively that world wars, deadlier pandemics, and thermonuclear brinkmanship can scarcely compare.
- squigz 2y agoI wonder what the fact of that matter is. Are reproduction rates dropping because women aren't as pressured to bear children due to those silly 'social engineering initiatives'?
- mistermann 2y agoI'd bet that's part of it, so what percentage it is would be impossible to determine, which itself may be impossible to realize, for some.
- ozim 2y agoPageants were far and between and everyone knew participants had to prepare and they are not walking like fit/dressed that day to day. Nowadays we have eternal pageant on the internet and lots faking it like they live/sleep/shower in full makeup and perfect fit.
- Loudergood 2y agoWhat a weird thing to say.
- fnord77 2y ago[flagged]
- ozim 2y agoRun off the mill MBAs are not allowed anywhere near to stuff as important as Voyager. All the web apps, that run of the mill devs are implementing are nowhere near as important as voyager. I think we are fine ;)
- darby_nine 2y agoIt also helps that JPL is a public good and not a wealth-extraction machine
- me_me_me 2y agobut if someone is paid $0 it must mean they are worthless, surely the excel file doesnt lie
- efitz 2y agoNo, you need to think like an MBA. It means that they are the most valuable employees, because their productivity per dollar is infinite. It also means that when you sort all the (non-executive, of course!) employees by total comp in preparation for layoffs to make the budget look better, they are at the bottom of the list.
- me_me_me 2y agooh yes, you are absolutely right :D
- superxpro12 2y ago[flagged]
- appendix-rock 2y agoI guarantee you that a run of the mill MBA program will say something about institutional knowledge being important. You’re needlessly and unjustifiably finding an excuse to dunk on something that you know people here dislike, despite it having very little to do with the actual topic. Which…fine. But you’re also so keen to do it that you aren’t even correct. Please stop projecting every gripe you have with your boss onto this mythical “evil MBA”.