A feral mind is only interesting at first. I was thinking about Linkedin. Is their objective to connect everybody in the world to everybody else? To get everyone saying good things (recommendations) about everybody else? I thought that was Oprah’s job.
I suspect Linkedin is the e version of business going bad. Isn't the whole "friends deal with friends" the problem with India and the rest of the third world? The Commonwealth Games 2010, (Delhi) cost $13 billion dollars, a quarter of which is said to have gone as payoffs to officials and those involved in administrating the contracts. That's the LinkedIn business model, where friends buy from friends.
The Delhi bridge structure collapsed, because someone's brother in law got the contract. It happens brother in law doesn't believe in rebar, but so what, he’s family. LinkedIn wants us to buy from people we know, even if they don't use steel rebar. They’re from our LinkedIn family!
If I recommend you on LinkedIn, does that make you good? The forerunner to LinkedIn was called bribery and nepotism. That seemed to work well, why change it? LinkedIn took it online and is now charging you to give and receive recommendations, taking favouritism to a whole new level!
A problem difference between how the first and the third world do business is our desire for competence vs. favouritism. A good manager hires for skills and experience, not nepotism or old boy network status. LinkedIn is taking us backwards, but they're using technology to do it. How clever.
March 16th, join me and 120 great feral managers. You might not agree with everything, but you will become a better manager!
See you for breakfast,
Wolfgang
p.s. With the exception of sales and business owners, sure why not. I have a LinkedIn page also; it's just one more brochure. It's another web presence. The idea of recommendations and connections, or to read when people are leaving Kansas, (via Tripit) is Twitter territory. (Avoiding the inane when discussing social media is getting tougher.)
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