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WCDT 3616 to 3621 (20th to 24th November 2017)
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: HornedOwl on 21 Nov 2017, 11:56 ---So to me, the question we should be asking isn't why isn't Tilly respecting Hannelore's wishes, but why would Beatrice, a known ruthless manipulator, send a fool to Hannelore, the only person Beatrice cares for in any way, in the first place?
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Managing difficult personnel: check.
Finding workable compromise: check
(Beatrice nods approvingly. She is a ruthless and savvy manipulator.)
----(adds)----
Tilly is talented and motivated. Properly managed, she has the potential to be a powerful asset. But polishing raw diamonds is not something Beatrice is good at. Beatrice has her blind spots, and she is dimly aware of them. She hopes her daughter will surpass her. So her training will continue.
Put it this way-- Hannelore at the helm of ECI will be able to do the world a lot of good.
Gyrre:
At the risk of getting this peeled off into a separate subforum, things like conformation bias and cognitive dissonance play into the aforementioned subconscious filters.
Factors that might play into this would be things like academic or scientific paradigms. For example, the notion that medieval Europeans thought the Earth was flat was cooked up during the Enlightenment era and was meant to deride Christians, especially Roman Catholics. Turns out that the educated peoples of the Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance world had long accepted that the world was round (with the occasional exception). One of the few documents purporting a flat Earth was Christian Topography from the 6th century AD. It was unpopular and came 2 centuries before the much more popular The Reckoning of Time which was also written by a Catholic monk.
Turns out the major debate in Colombus's day was what size the Earth was, not what shape it was.
EDIT: Looks like I got the dates mixed up. The much more popular The Reckoning of Time was from 725 AD, 2 centuries after Christian Topography .
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 22 Nov 2017, 16:36 ---Put it this way-- Hannelore at the helm of ECI will be able to do the world a lot of good.
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Or she will release the virus.
Is it cold in here?:
If it's a blindly obedient organization she'd be able to steer it.
If the evil is baked in at the fourth-monkey level and is the default mode when the CEO isn't actively looking at you, she might fail.
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Nov 2017, 18:01 ---If it's a blindly obedient organization she'd be able to steer it.
If the evil is baked in at the fourth-monkey level and is the default mode when the CEO isn't actively looking at you, she might fail.
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Googling "fourth-monkey level" produced an acting company and a horror-novel, neither of which sounds right, so ... some halp? :oops:
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