Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > Most of them (unfortunately for us) are pretty
> > damn competent, though it's because of their
> > connections that they get to exercise that
> > competence.
>
> If this is the case, I have not seen it in thirty
> years in ANY place I have worked.

I will have to agree with Joanna.

Those in the upper management are there not because
they are more competent than others but generally
because they are better than others in playing power
politics and, putting connections aside, most of the
time the ones who rise to the top are the ones with
the brownest noses. Businesses, at least,  big
businesses, are more like military establishments:
there are privates and officers, and while privates do
most of the fighting, they also helplessly watch the
officers fight among themselves to move up in the
hierarchy.

Best,

Sabri