It's About Time, Underachievers!
Photo by Felipe Micaroni Lalli
When last we left them, the three union men had burst upon Elliott Jaques with the brilliant solution that had come to them while drinking: the reason why some people got paid more than others had to do with how long it took to get paid. My fictionalization aside, what made this any more brilliant than the last idea I had for solving the company’s problems whilst out with the lads?
It hinges on something that they said. Because they were wrong, just brilliantly wrong. And the solution that their wrongness led directly to will show you how someone as qualified as Byron could get stuck in a dead-end government job.
The hinge that these non-manager, non-academics discovered was time.
Get it?
No?
Read on. You will.
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April 19, 2008 No Comments
