"Organisations hire smart people, but then positively encourage them not to use their intelligence. Asking difficult questions or thinking in greater depth is seen as a dangerous waste. Talented employees quickly learn to use their significant intellectual gifts only in the most narrow and myopic ways."
I know this will sound unbearably smug but the absolute best thing about my job is that that's really not true at all.
Universities are certainly not devoid of the ticky-box culture, but in the science part of my life I use my brains to their full. And I try and hire smart people and then encourage them to use their intelligence, ask difficult questions, challenge me and others and think in greater depth. And I'm learning every day. It rocks!
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Date: 2016-10-10 05:47 pm (UTC)I know this will sound unbearably smug but the absolute best thing about my job is that that's really not true at all.
Universities are certainly not devoid of the ticky-box culture, but in the science part of my life I use my brains to their full. And I try and hire smart people and then encourage them to use their intelligence, ask difficult questions, challenge me and others and think in greater depth. And I'm learning every day. It rocks!
Neuromancer :-D