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Please resist the temptation to describe corporate pathology by means of bad analogies with medical pathology. You're making me cringe.
by blahblahblah 17y ago
Please resist the temptation to describe corporate pathology by means of bad analogies with medical pathology. You're making me cringe.
- stcredzero 17y agoI thought that atherosclerotic had passed from analogy to just flat-out insult. I like making you cringe.
- blahblahblah 17y agoMy point is that such a statement is absolute nonsense; it conveys no information at all. You might as well have been discussing the "jabberwockyness" of a company. What would it even mean for a company have atherosclerosis? In what sense could a company be said to be stenotic? What elements of the company would correspond to the various components of arterial plaque? What about a company could be said to correspond to a transient ischemic attack? How could you identify a company whose 'plaque' is characterized by the presence of lipid-rich necrotic core vs. one that has juxtaluminal hemorrhage or one that is calcified? Can you mitigate the symptoms of an atherosclerotic company via administration of rt-PA or via endarterectomy? No obvious analogues for these features of atherosclerosis exist in the context of a company. The analogy is not just a leaky abstraction; it's a broken one.