Friday, September 3, 2010 at 4:41AM | in Other Strictly business
The Daily Dish has an ongoing series of reader insights into little known characteristics of well-known occupations. I thought this one on middle-management was interesting:
the world of abstract ideas in business is often arid, silly, and pretentious while at the same time overly cutesy. But the world of how things get done in business - the world of factory floors, imports/exports, incentives, distributors and retailers etc. is mind-blowing, and only becoming more so as more and more markets are knit together. If you go to Dubai you can see Nigerians selling generators made in China to a mix of Urdu and Persian speakers who captain wooden boats down the Dubai Creek to Al Ain. That is interesting, no matter what your leaning.
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 4:41AM | in Other 
Reader Comments (2)
Just so, I agree entirely. It's a strange disconnect, too, between the insubstantial nonsense of biz-speak and globalisation itself, which is a kind of horrifically beautiful wonder of the world.
Case in point:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories