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> Apply for a job and change it from within That's not at all how I read what happened. Rather, I read that the two worked back and forth until they came to th
by flatline 12y ago
> Apply for a job and change it from within
That's not at all how I read what happened. Rather, I read that the two worked back and forth until they came to this present arrangement, and he was hired specifically for the purpose of making an organizational change. There has to be a culture there that is open to change or you will just make yourself an outcast by entering such an endeavor on your own. Unless you have some highly exceptional leadership and people skills, and likely connections in congress and the upper echelons of defense, this will go exactly nowhere at a place like the CIA.
- kijin 12y agoCompletely agreed. This case is news precisely because it is so rare for a government agency to be open to change. It takes a very unusual mindset for a police department to hire an activist rather than sue him, shoot him, arrest him, ignore him, or do any of a thousand other things that the police is known to do to gadflies. Kudos to Seattle PD, and shame to everyone else. Instead of blindly attacking or cooperating with government agencies, activists need to take a twin-track approach. Those who are open to change will get help. Those who aren't will be, uh, "disrupted". Politics loves to devour those who approach it with a naive, one-size-fits-all ideal. As in business, you need to carefully determine which ones you want to cooperate with, which ones to merely tolerate, and which ones to drive out of the market asap.