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I don't know, gave up when the article claimed you can't learn from the plane that wandered off into Russian territory and got shot. It's exactly the same situa
by lnanek2 13y ago
I don't know, gave up when the article claimed you can't learn from the plane that wandered off into Russian territory and got shot. It's exactly the same situation that needs to be addressed. Senior Korean pilots don't have to legitimately pass training and aren't told by the people they work with when they make mistakes. Wandering off course is the same as forgetting your auto-throttle disables at a certain altitude in this regard. It's something easily caught by a second pair of eyes who, in a more functional culture, could tell the pilot. I don't think the article is even trying to see the argument.
I had a Korean CEO like this once at Noom. The guy constantly fucked up. Forgot to pay employees, paid the wrong amount, forgot to pay gym memberships for months which was supposed to be a benefit, promised to update addresses for immigration paperwork and never got around to it, etc.. Even the CTO admitted numbers were not the CEOs strong point and he was just there to make friendly deals with other business people. If you called the guy out on anything, or setup a meeting to try to address things together, he took you away from his desk where things could be fixed to a meeting room to lecture you for an hour on how you had to respect him.
- bjourne 13y agoCome on! You can't seriously try and connect "Korean culture" with the douchebag slacker CEO you are describing.
- pessimizer 13y agoI'm not sure that's functionally any different than what Gladwell did here.
- candybar 13y agoYour second paragraph is, quite unintentionally, a great anecdote for why culturalism is a problem. You've somehow managed to blame your boss's quite idiosyncratic issues on his Korean-ness and connect it to another, completely unrelated incident where Korean-ness was being blamed for failure. There are legitimate and complex ways in which culture can influence individual behavior, but in practice, most such arguments come down to just laziness, personal biases or in some extreme cases, a socially more acceptable way to express racial prejudice.