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No Golf?

While reading about the rise of the Google juggernaut in Steven Levy‘s “In The Plex“, I stumbled upon this jaw dropping passage:

WTF? No sponsored golf? Bummer.

Note: The main purpose of this post wasn’t really to joke about the lack of golf outings sanctioned at Google. It was to make sure that you, dear readers, saw the “coddling” sentence. In CLORGs and DYSCOs that have lost their way, and Google may eventually morph into one of these monstrosities; salesman, marketers and managers coddle themselves and their incest-born kin more than the bottom line wealth and value creators; be they artists, ad-creators, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nurses, system engineers, software engineers, test engineers, and/or hardware engineers. But hey, don’t listen to me. I have an ego-maniacal agenda – just like the roles I condemn.

  1. coddlefish's avatar
    coddlefish
    May 30, 2011 at 8:12 am

    amen, brother.

    half our sales force is regularly ‘unreachable’ because buzzing blackberry’s don’t fit into the quiver with that new 5-iron they’ve been dieing to try out.

    Most of them can rant with elocution on how to birdie number 7, but ask them to describe our products to a customer, and they have to pick up a fact-sheet and recite.

    coddled indeed. now where’s my wind-vest?

  2. coddlefish's avatar
    coddlefish
    May 30, 2011 at 8:23 am

    so which glass are you?

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