On May 23, 12:41 pm, "*Anarcissie*" <anarcis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 23, 12:32 pm, ta <padl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Have you noticed that committees -- whether at work, in your
> > neighborhood homeowner's association, or the local non-profit -- tend
> > to attract the same personality type? They're almost always full of
> > people intent on trying to control other people -- the classic
> > kibitzer, the busy body, the control freak.
>
> > And then there is the ultimate committee . . . the U.S. gummint (where
> > the pay is much better).
>
> Most of the committee formation I've observed has been
> at work, in the sense of cor****ate employment, which is
> already an authoritarian environment. The committees
> are usually made up of people who don't want to be on
> them -- it's extra work and responsibility for no extra pay
> or respect.
That's true, in a work environment, there are always your reluctant
committee members. And there are those who join voluntarily so they
can wield their power.
> Often, the job being detailed to the committee
> could be performed by one person.
Or the "job" is manufactured to make someone feel im****tant or make
them look good.
> The formation of
> committees, like the calling of meetings, seems to come
> out of the mental habits and conceptual worlds of
> cor****ate collective management. It's the way things
> are done -- no one is sure exactly why.
For the same reason governments are formed: control.
On a positive note, sometimes they are useful -- i.e., I've seen cases
where decisions were successfully made by consensus -- but then that's
not really a committee in my mind.
Consensus seems to be a good way to make decisions, as long as the
group is not too big, which is why I'm in favor of small, de-
centralized groups over mammoth, centralized ones like governments.
But then every group is only as successful as the state of mind of its
constituents.
> One could say a lot more about this. I find the analysis
> of office politics fascinating, but most people don't seem
> to. Perhaps you wanted to follow a different track.
All tracks are good.
Office politics is not signficiantly different to me than any other
form of politics.
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