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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

I am convinced that we are not made for clear-cut, well-delineates schedules. We are made to live like firemen, with downtime for lounging and meditating between calls, under the protection of protective uncertainty. Regrettably, some people might be Involuntarily turned into optimizers, like a suburban child having his weekend minutes separated between karate, guitar lessons, and religious education.

The higher up the corporate ladder, the higher the compensation to the individual. This might be justified, as it makes plenty of sense to pay individuals according to their contribution. However, and in general...the higher up the corporate ladder, the lower the evidence of such contribution.

Consider the difference of judging on process and judging on results. Lower ranking persons in the enterprise and judged on process and results--in fact, owing to the repetitive efforts of their process converges rapidly to results. But top management is only paid on results, no matter what the process. There seems to be no such thing as a foolish decision if it results in profits. Money talks, we are often told. The rest is...philosophy.