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From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>
> "This has been my experience working for large corporations: the  
> creative, innovative and more efficient workers are the first to get  
> the ax. They are regarded as loony, non-conformist and lazy. Their  
> gifts of foreseeing the future and trying to get people to prepare  
> for it are resented by those with second-tier intelligence, which are  
> conformist rather than innovative. Conformists tend to hold the  
> stable management positions of power below the top. Conformists last  
> in organizations, innovators either go up to the top tier or are  
> forced out, depending on whether they are also able to build power  
> bases.
> "
> 
> Cordially
> 
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> patrick at zill.net

Just in time.  I'm handing out copies among the faculty I work with when
school starts (with your permission of course).