I'm not talking about your boss. I'm talking about your boss's boss's boss.
Bruz says buy no junk, which would put us in the same club several years ago. You see for most of my life, especially having come from the scientific end of things, I expected that the people who really ruled, spoke in the codes of Western Civilization. You know, they would pepper their perfect diction with quotes from Shelley and Keats at the appropriate moments. And all the while I thought this, I had this nagging suspicion that the only people who told the truth on television were the baseball coaches who were interviewed after a losing game. So maybe these people who were smart enough to run the world just didn't show up on TV. Maybe they had no need to interact with most of us crude folks who can't tell Andrew Marvell from Alexander Pope. Perhaps they secret themselves among the blowhards and retards of the idle rich in perfect anonymity. I would.
I inhabit the world of people with degrees from State who keep the engines of their world working. And occasionally I meet one of our guys who did good. They inevitably turn out to know everything about one thing and nothing of Shelley. I might just throw up my hands and say that there is no civilization in civilization, but I know that's not true, I just look too hard.
One of the things I'm in particular awe over these days are those leaders of large organizations. Oftimes I wonder how they did it, and how they do it. I mean the good ones. It has been a very long time since I worked for a large organization. My boss's boss's boss has been 'the market'; I haven't been deeply nestled in a deep corporate hierarchy since 1990.
Who is your boss's boss's boss and would you like to be like him? What's different about him? It's one of Cobb's rules never to trust anyone whose clothing cost more than your day's pay. Maybe your uberboss is an exception.
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