Your Humble Blogger hasn't blogged up the DARPA futures market business yet, which is just as well, because it turns out that Steve Kelman wrote a column in the Washington Post last Thursday saying pretty much exactly what I think.
Most new ideas in life turn out to be bad ones, but imaginative thinking is also the engine of progress. Surely there is no better way to discourage imagination than to fire people whose ideas are hastily judged as unacceptable.One of the major problems in any organization is giving people the opportunity to try things, fail, learn, and try other things. It's a tricky business in a variety of ways, and I do think that the DARPA futures market had visible problems, which ought to have been caught much earlier in the process. If it turns out that there are people who need to be fired because they failed to do that part of the job, then fine. But in general, firing people who have bad ideas is not good management, in my opinion.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.
it’s much too early in the process of thinking about that subject to describe dismissing the responsible parties as a bad decision. you’re fired.
actually on this whole subject i feel like, what, did i miss something? was somebody else talking about masturbation?