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One day, out of the blue I was compelled to read about 30 minutes notes from a book called 'Dogbert's top secrete Management tricks'.

The first thought was " Hurray !! I am on the right direction of analysis". Why ? 

I always felt that managers are infilterating every domain where they are suitable and where they are not supposed to be. 

Later I did some research and realized that Scott Adams had written this as a satire. People totally forgot that it is a satire and they should learn to understand the satire in the satirical way. But the unfortunate fact is: The guys / girls have made it their bible for survival, their bible for success and their bible for acting.

This always influences the progress. 

Interesting that Scott Adams has observed society so carefully and put all that in a satire. Unfortunately instead of doing good, it will eventually bring down economies because ACTING is much easier than BEING ONE. Acting cannot provide solutions. If lucky some solutions may be prove beneficial but in the long run they will influence in an irrevocable way.

He starts with saying : Acting like manager - How true it is. People have literally taking his statement. They are acting like managers.

Acting is Illusion, some day it is bound to break. How much will be the damage depends on

• how much infestation has happened with the acting managers and
• how much of these managers have created their hieraracy of less  and lesser intellectual resources below them with muddle heads

which obviously means - long term loss of intelligence and failure of the system. This also will be the fate of the countries where Flash, entertainment and media glitter is the norm. The core - I doubt. 

Some Dogbert's rules are : 

• Management time fillers  - writing mission statements, renaming the department, it goes on
• Clothes make a leader - Wow!! is that really true - think about it - Oh!!it was a satire right !!
• Leaders do what their secretaries ask/schedule them to do
• Ways to avoid making decisions -
  
  • Act confused,
  • form a task force of people who are too busy to meet,
  • send employees to find more data,
  • loose documents sent for approval,
  • say you are waiting for some other manager to 'get upto the speed'

Think about these aspects when adapted in a serious science environment -

• the boss says - he never got the document
• the boss says - he is waiting for the collaborator to respond for heads up - truth is he never contacted
• the boss says - he asks for more data
• the boss says - he asks for more validation  

imagine where is the progress going - definitely to dogs.

thats it for now.