Davos and the Peter Principle writ large

Joe Chi Minh

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Sun Jan-27-08 10:06 AM
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Davos and the Peter Principle writ large

Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 10:07 AM by KCabotDullesMarxIII

An interesting item in todays' (UK) Mail on Sunday (an ultra-corporatist newspaper) written by Frank Dobson, a New Labour MP and former Cabinet minister, on the predictive record of the Masters of the Universe, the bosses of the top American and European banks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510617&in_page_id=1770

And an interesting post by the second respondent, Richard, Kidderminster, to an article in the same organ, linked below, on the superiority of Chimpanzees' memories to those of human beings:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510260&in_page_id=1770

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bemildred

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Sun Jan-27-08 10:15 AM
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1. Maybe we could hire the chimps to run the banks?

Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 10:16 AM by bemildred

They would probably be willing to work for a lot less.

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Joe Chi Minh

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Sun Jan-27-08 11:51 AM
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2. Bean counters versus peanut counters? That's a difficult one....

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