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Riskless business – of inertia, ego-fodder-fication and “buying IBM”
There’s a business adage “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. It’s from back in the day (1970s) when Big Blue was the last word in computing. If you had a decision to make about what to buy you could, … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, ego-fodder, risk aversion, smugosphere, what is to be done
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Semi-ironic checklist that *would* actually reduce ego-fodderfication
This post is only going to make sense if you read yesterday’s measured and reasoned analysis rant about two events I went to on Saturday. Both would have been much much less counter-productive and appealing to a broad range of … Continue reading
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Tagged ego-fodder, meetings, movement-building, smugosphere, social movements
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Ego-fodder, colluding in crap activism and lousy parenting
All in a couple of hundred words! Ego-fodder is my term for the “audience” at any event that has not been designed for genuine cross-clique mingling. Ego-fodder is the people sat in rows listening to the sage on the stage. … Continue reading
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Tagged cod Freudian bollocks, ego-fodder, infanitlisation, kidults, meetings, movement-building, responsibility, smugosphere
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Of ego-foddering, Chautauqua and circuses…
I call the circus “ego-fodder”ing. (See youtube video here.) Conferences, I have learned, follow one of two models, which might be called the Chautauqua model and the circus model. The Chatauqua model—does anyone these days remember the old Chatauqua shows? … Continue reading
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Tagged leaving babylon, movement-building, social movements
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“Ego-fodder solutions*” youtube script – help wanted
Below is the draft script for the sequel video to the “From Cannon-Fodder to Ego-Fodder” youtube that I put up. I’ve had some good feedback (thanks – you know who you are), and plan to be putting this up as … Continue reading
Spring-ing into action? Yeah, good luck with that.
Finally, I am learning (I think). I am not, (wife-be-happy) going to dance to the Masochism Tango. There was a time I might have enthusiastically attended this, in Manchester on Saturday May 11th. No more. Why? Well, here’s the comment … Continue reading
Whatever happened to the people who gave a damn?
As Gil Scott Heron sang here. Or did that just apply to not dying in the jungles of Vietnam… Two scenes from films spring to mind Warren Beatty as “Bulworth” lamenting whatever happened to Huey Newton etc etc and Halle … Continue reading
Corruption, collusion and the smugosphere, or “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work”
A friend of mine, who is far far smarter than she realises, as well as being just a top person to boot (funny, forgiving, perceptive), told me of the joke made in the dying days of the Soviet Union (and … Continue reading
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As a white m/c male, I am beginning to tire of race, class and gender-baiting
I have privilege, I have entitlement. I do not deny either. I used that privilege a few weekends ago when an avuncularitis-ing muppet chose not to have a co-facilitator in a room of 30 people, even though he is – … Continue reading
XX marks the spot? Female-dominated meetings
Yes there are exceptions (many exceptions), but as a gross generalisation – for reasons that may have to do with genetics, or socialisation (and I am not particularly interested because the ‘genetics’ argument is a red herring) – women are … Continue reading
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Tagged avuncularitis, ego-fodder, meetings, movement-building, social movements
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