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Add in the yearly reviews many corporate positions require to the data base allows careers to be tracked and traced the entire time of the employment years.
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To strip away your rights…
“THEY” now prefer the meme: “It’s for your children”.
PRECISELY WHY NOT TO COMPLY - For children, and grandcildren…
To todays post…
I remember when Bill O’Reillt and Keith Obermann Started an on air battle over Real News.
Tiurn out their sponsor had to STOP them cold…
They started doing real news.
“Your owned by General Electric!”[2009]
"Oh Yeh! Your story yesterday flat-out lied about… "
It’s GREAT when two rivals go at each other in public.
Truth becomes their weapon of choice.
(Oops! From headlines I thought there was going to be a delicious fight for supremacy)
Unfortunately, it’s a fight for continued surveillance and the continued manipulation and fine-tuning for brainwashing young minds, not to mention selling their “test” and other information to ANYBODY/ANYWHERE!
American Healthcare, Democracy, Education - they share a common bottom line = $$$$$.
The education market is being destroyed by AI, and the IVY League educational product’s reputation, that is starting to reflect reality: THEY"RE STUPID!, Bottom Line!
If the test results withheld ANY Potential Victim’s family’s wealth from being expploited?
The tests results had to be expunged; in some adminstrative creative, Hocus-Pocus.
Can’t have the College Adminstraitors outrageous incomes - reflecting ANY reality.
Now the tests are expanding to ALL MARKETS to help potential employers guage their new potential cog in the machine. Which means all kinds of skulldugery, as AI is factored deep inside the subjects’ career path. Paths orchestrated like the SOVIET UNION…
ON STEROIDS!
Collective & Captive Careers of: NO CHOICES!.
The models that appear to most likely mimic; this coming era in America et alia, are the…
SOCIAL INSECTS!
There are probably many reasons that would cause one to avoid the late Jack Welsh former GE CEO, and author of cult-like scripture called “The GE Way” if one bumped into him at an “In and Out” burgery. He inflicted, with all the aesthteics of marketing and branding, the "Bell Curve " and bell curve performance management in to managing humans. Out of respect for personal emotional intelligence, I don’t believe my self regulation quotient would have sufficently restrained my reactive fist… and I’m far from being a violent person by nature. So I’m glad I never shared the purchase of a burger opportunity with him for all of the waste of time and angst his notions created in my daily worklife.
I grew up careerwise, managing people and specialising in industrial relations (negotiating with unions because they were much more prevalent back in the day in the private sector) so reality and practicality formed my career as opposed to spin, with its concomitant fads and narratives that strangled the HR function and organisations, I believe from that same period of time.
Dear Jack decided to write a book (above) and instead of focussing on his busness marketing he transliterated market and finace concepts into human behaviour and their performance assessment. To me that was misuse of a statistical technique (we all get what statistics can be) to create competiton and reduce bonussing pay at the same time. I’m sure his board were delighted as were many of the sichophantic denizens of corporate land and academia. And yes my erstwhile HR colleagues and HR consultants grabbed illegitimate power and a juicy fees bonanza respectively. I apologise humbly to my fellow Gizars if you have suffered in any way as a result of that misconduct.
Had my colleagues actually been literate in either mathematics, logic or behavioural psychology , this monstrosity would have had a poorer prospect of both escaping gravity and reality.
The Bell Curve measures values around a mean/average value in standard deviations from that mean value, is a statistical descriptor and measure for producing widgets = high volume, repetitive outcomes, meant to be homogeous units or entities. It is in fact a nonsense when it comes to describe and measure anything else that has a heart beat or DNA. But the accountants and consultants weren’t going to pass up that opportunity.
The bell curve was in fact so aggregiously conceived and applied it caused class actions against GE, Microsoft and a wraft of othar corporate entities. But like a Covid jab contents, it just wouldn’t go away.The latter organisations have long since dropped it as a management technique or practice but it remains quite prevalent even to today. Humans are not measurable in that way, if at all perhaps, and anyway that is not how they perform or enhance personal performance in any field, academic SAT test, on a sports field, workshop floor, adminstrative excellence or managerial competence.
If anything comes close, and I have serious questions, it works more like a power law (Pareto) where the 15% to 20% of a given population in any situation, contribute the 60% to 75% of whatever output is achieved. However, there are many more independent variables acting on the reality of performance. What is real though, is that high performers, are practically constrained by time and capacity to achieve that output or contribution, alone. Take away about 60 to 70 % of the remainder of the population/resources and a high performer’s contribution is significantly impacted.
Measuring aganst artifical aggregated standards are a waste of time if you are truly interested in living beings’ outcomes prediction. A much more productive method is coaching and / or mentoring each individual of a given population (often by dependent high performers) to simply improve over time on where they have been at a previous point in time. This is a much more predictive and success/contribution-ensuring approach and can be monitiored at the individual level. You develop people to their innate strengths. This can be constrained by the intellectual horsepower upstairs, which takes longer to develop and does have upper limits. But, for example, you would never play a right-footed soccer player on the left side of the pitch, if you could avoid doing so. And so you coach the player to enhance the right-footed nature and aspects of the game and performance.
To get to the point central to the good Doctor’s blog. People are not widgets and assessing against any standardised statistical test is at best nonsense and at worst potentially an injurious tort.
Aguinis, H., & O’Boyle Jr, E. (2014). Star performers in twenty‐first century organizations. Personnel Psychology , 67 (2), 313-350.
Murphy, K. R. (2020). Performance evaluation will not die, but it should. Human Resource Management Journal , 30 (1), 13-31.
O’Boyle Jr, E., & Aguinis, H. (2012). The best and the rest: Revisiting the norm of normality of individual performance. Personnel Psychology , 65 (1), 79-119.
O’Boyle, E., & Kroska, S. (2017). Star performers. The Oxford handbook of talent management , 43-65.
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Jack Welsh, raised-up to become a specialized, financialization tool.
Where GE, was metamorphisized into a financial powerhouse: GE Capital,
…Into an unregulated shadow bank.
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I was required to take a test for a position with a major oil company prior to being hired measuring the command of reading comprehension, math skills, problem solving and critical thinking. I passed with no problem, however the required test was later abandoned for new hires as being discriminatory towards others, especially minorities who could not pass the test thus a hindrance to staffing the office.
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DEI and/or DIE by…
A Collective Policy…
[SOVIET STYLE}
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s m r a snek. c m b d i’s?
(new comprehension test)
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I flunked, the original data is intact.
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You forgot annual “Self evaluation”, you read right, no more being evaluated by a superior. 
Considering that the majority of humanity are “functional idiots” and society has been engineered around their needs, why not build countless data centers and use general artificial intelligence to supervise their existence.
Am I jumping the gun?
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TECNOCRACY functions through DATA Centers.
The more; the better CONTROL of you/society.
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