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[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:23:07PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> "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.

Usually true.  However, my "non-conformist" ways, willingness to "think
outside the box" and come up with "creative solutions using no-cost open
source tools" have gotten me kept onboard when our Austin office closed,
transferred to the Houston office, and put into a more senior position
dealing with enterprise infrastructure instead of being the local IT/
printer-fixit guy.  The "more agile and open to new ideas" IT department
of the subsidiary I work for has grown and taken over a lot of the "do it
THIS way or not at all" mentality of the larger parent company IT
department.

I'm sure this is an exception to the rule though.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas