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Hand waving and made up numbers. It's kind of annoying when someone uses precise numbers that they pulled out of the air with no empirical basis as the foundati
by droithomme 14y ago
Hand waving and made up numbers. It's kind of annoying when someone uses precise numbers that they pulled out of the air with no empirical basis as the foundation of an argument.
At the end he asks about the organizations where 60% of value is produced by 40% of employees. Which organizations? How is value measured? No telling because the numbers are just made up.
- kfk 14y agoThis. And let's add the obvious remark that if this 40% is that good, than why it is not firing the other 60%? Why do they keep them? All in all, this is the kind of poor business talk that makes MBAs so irritating.
- heed 14y agoYou don't need to say "this." Your comment reads fine without it.
- dasil003 14y agoThanks for saying that. I must be getting old and grumpy because that's an idiom that gets under my skin for no good reason as opposed to my prior hatred for the "fail" idiom which I am legitimately annoyed by due to its very nature as pessimistic armchair denigration.
- natrius 14y agoIf "agreed" were used instead, it'd perform the same function without being called out by people who don't like internet linguistic trends. Clearly indicating one's position in an argument is valuable, and "this" accomplishes that.
- amalag 14y agoIt is a seriously annoying internet fad/trend nowadays to put "this" in comments.