29: Politics over Product, All About Power

Canceling meetings two minutes before the meeting All about power and priorities Habitual lateness based on seniority Playing the status game Machiavelli's The Prince should be required reading Corporate America is becoming politics over profit 1099 workers are the only ones that work, everyone else is just covering their asses New Blood vs Organizational Culture You are hired to alleviate risk Androgynization of Corporate America Power and control Women are just as competitive as men and use covert means instead of overt means. A Beautiful Mind - bar scene rejection Lesson: don't go after the decision-maker Companies are built around the male form of competition Going woke is a mitigation strategy against the Twitter mob The woke brigade is now physically going after you unless you concede Finite and Infinite Games People don't want to be called out from the herd, if you call people out they will do anything not to be called out Go after the instigators in the group to defuse the group Who is leading BLM and Antifa? Seems no one Who is the Antifa top dog? Is it George Soros? It's all about POWER. RBG: On a pedestal. The last wish was already done when JFK was killed Martin Luther King Jr. is being ignored because we are now supposed to judge people by the color of their skin instead of the content of their  calendar There is a meme floating around saying that AI is already running our lives, according to Scott Adams and The Social Dilemma, but there is always a human (or a bunch of humans) behind the AI "We will communicate better when you agree with me." Communication has nothing to do with agreement Everytime we think this time is crazy but things have always been crazy