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I think that the ones you really have to watch are the intelligent and industrious ones. They do not have time to stop wondering whether their goal is sensible

• jackfoxy 12y ago
  That's why you put them on staff. You should be close enough to them to know what they are working on, and redirect them when necessary.
• asdkl234890 12y ago
  Since we have intelligent vs stupid, I assume industrious is given as the opposite of lazy. So industrious really means hard working. And hard working can be dangerous. Very, very intelligent workaholics are responsible for some of the most expensive, least efficient work I've ever seen. No matter how hard and difficult, and too complicated things get, they just roll up their sleeves and go to work. And using their super intellect, they can manage it. But everyone else is hurt by that. Maybe you thought industrious meant inventive, or creative. But if it means only hard working. Then intelligent and hard working is a dangerous combination. Often successful but at a huge cost. Smart and lazy is just as often successful, but without those huge costs. When smart and lazy people get hard work, they think of ways to make it easier. That's where we get the old saying that civilization advances only thanks to lazy people. Hard working people just put up with however hard or inconvenient work is, lazy people get creative.
• chc 12y ago
  That sounds like the same sort of person Helmuth was describing as "stupid and industrious" — they make a lot of progress in ill-advised directions.