Comment by api
16 years ago
No, it's worse than that. I have seen this before. There is an entire portion of the business world that merely goes through the motions of being successful businesses rather than actually being businesses at all. It's really weird.
You could look at it as investment fraud with plausible deniability. Take money, hire consultants, look busy. The only thing is, I don't think it's that explicit or intentional. I think there's a breed of person out there in the business world who does not grasp the distinction between actually doing something and imitating the appearance of doing it.
There's always been something wrong, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it, with the idea of getting a degree solely in "business"... I think I get it now.
Reminds me of a shirt I saw somewhere from a cartoon I've never seen: "What's this? I'm going to go do some Science on it!" Seems very similar to: "I'm a business man"
I could not agree more. Business is something you do with stuff, but you have to have stuff to do business about. Business is not something that can be done in a void.
A lot of the fakers and cargo cultists are trying to do business about business to do business... they're not delivering any value because they don't know how.
Don't forget the cult of personality. Find someone you like more than yourself. Analyse. Imitate. -- prophet-oriented religion in a nutshell.