Location: Greetings from the Humungous. Ayatollah of rock and rolla! Joined: 08.15.2014
Feb 10 @ 8:41 AM ET
Lots of hate in here tonight, you guys are all on the same team. Just got to figure out what team it is.
10 shutouts for the Flames this year, there’s room on the wagon for a few.
After midnight here, I’ll see myself out. - K-man25
Location: Greetings from the Humungous. Ayatollah of rock and rolla! Joined: 08.15.2014
Feb 10 @ 8:46 AM ET
You never get tired of telling yourself that. Do you stand in front of a mirror and repeat it over and over? Do you touch your tiny d!ck when you tell yourself that? Do you ever wonder why your wife goes through so many batteries? - boonerbuck
I suggest you, and the others who are on about diversity hires for the Canucks/other places, read this article. It's quite good: it's about 9/11 and the CIA's hiring practices that arguably lead to their collective blind spots to the threat that faced them. Basically, a room full of middle class white men who hired middle class white men didn't perceive/recognize the threat that a Muslim man sitting in a cave possessed because their biases and backgrounds didn't pick up on the allusions, scale, and cultural/religious history that was being spoken to.
"The two major exams were a SAT-style test to probe a candidate's intelligence and a psychological profile to examine their mental state," says a CIA veteran. "The tests filtered out anyone who was not stellar on both tests. In the year I applied, they accepted one candidate for every 20,000 applicants. When the CIA talked about hiring the best, they were bang on the money ."
And yet most of these recruits also happened to look very similar - white, male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant Americans.
This is a common phenomenon in recruiting, sometimes called "homophily": people tend to hire people who think (and often look) like themselves. It is validating to be surrounded by people who share one's perspectives and beliefs. Indeed, brain scans suggest that when others reflect our own thoughts back to us, it stimulates the pleasure centres of our brains.
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Why did this homogeneity matter? If you are hiring a relay team, don't you just want the fastest runners? Why would it matter if they are the same colour, gender, social class, etc?
Yet this logic, while sound for simple tasks like running, flips for complex tasks like intelligence. Why? Because when a problem is complex, no one person has all the answers. We all have blind spots, gaps in our understanding.
This means, in turn, that if you bring a group of people who share similar perspectives and backgrounds, they are liable to share the same blind spots. And this means that far from challenging and addressing these blind spots, they are likely to be reinforced.
Whilst running an NHL team isn't the same as defending a country, the key similarity is in intelligence. Having a more diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences allows for less blind spots in the organization. It's a move away from the old boys club, and hopefully will lead to a better run team.
I suggest you, and the others who are on about diversity hires for the Canucks/other places, read this article. It's quite good: it's about 9/11 and the CIA's hiring practices that arguably lead to their collective blind spots to the threat that faced them. Basically, a room full of middle class white men who hired middle class white men didn't perceive/recognize the threat that a Muslim man sitting in a cave possessed because their biases and backgrounds didn't pick up on the allusions, scale, and cultural/religious history that was being spoken to.
Whilst running and NHL team isn't the same as defending a country, the key similarity is in intelligence. Having a more diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences allows for less blind spots in the organization. It's a move away from the old boys club, and hopefully will lead to a better run team. - NewYorkNuck
I suggest you, and the others who are on about diversity hires for the Canucks/other places, read this article. It's quite good: it's about 9/11 and the CIA's hiring practices that arguably lead to their collective blind spots to the threat that faced them. Basically, a room full of middle class white men who hired middle class white men didn't perceive/recognize the threat that a Muslim man sitting in a cave possessed because their biases and backgrounds didn't pick up on the allusions, scale, and cultural/religious history that was being spoken to.
Whilst running and NHL team isn't the same as defending a country, the key similarity is in intelligence. Having a more diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences allows for less blind spots in the organization. It's a move away from the old boys club, and hopefully will lead to a better run team. - NewYorkNuck
This is from the leafs thread but I had to share because it’s hilarious.
Ken Campbell
@Ken_Campbell27
If Martin St-Louis is indeed hired as the next coach of the Montreal Canadiens, the big question is who is going to take over as assistant with the Mid Fairfield U13 team? If this happens, the Habs will have literally hired a peewee coach. A peewee coach.
Location: Greetings from the Humungous. Ayatollah of rock and rolla! Joined: 08.15.2014
Feb 10 @ 10:43 AM ET
I suggest you, and the others who are on about diversity hires for the Canucks/other places, read this article. It's quite good: it's about 9/11 and the CIA's hiring practices that arguably lead to their collective blind spots to the threat that faced them. Basically, a room full of middle class white men who hired middle class white men didn't perceive/recognize the threat that a Muslim man sitting in a cave possessed because their biases and backgrounds didn't pick up on the allusions, scale, and cultural/religious history that was being spoken to.
Whilst running an NHL team isn't the same as defending a country, the key similarity is in intelligence. Having a more diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences allows for less blind spots in the organization. It's a move away from the old boys club, and hopefully will lead to a better run team. - NewYorkNuck
Hoping lol. Just want qualified folks to get this team back to the top 10. Don't give a sh!t if they white yellow black brown or otherwise male or female or they want to have 5 penises...just get this (frank)ing club back in the win column but you do have to admit the Canucks Org for sure looking at optics right now. Gotta fill those seats...
You honestly believe that Bin Laden and a bunch of untrained ( flight simulator) 'pilots' armed with nothing more than a laptop and a few cell phones and box cutters from 4000 miles away toppled the WTC? lol...funny...
I suggest you, and the others who are on about diversity hires for the Canucks/other places, read this article. It's quite good: it's about 9/11 and the CIA's hiring practices that arguably lead to their collective blind spots to the threat that faced them. Basically, a room full of middle class white men who hired middle class white men didn't perceive/recognize the threat that a Muslim man sitting in a cave possessed because their biases and backgrounds didn't pick up on the allusions, scale, and cultural/religious history that was being spoken to.
Whilst running an NHL team isn't the same as defending a country, the key similarity is in intelligence. Having a more diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences allows for less blind spots in the organization. It's a move away from the old boys club, and hopefully will lead to a better run team. - NewYorkNuck
Hoping lol. Just want qualified folks to get this team back to the top 10. Don't give a sh!t if they white yellow black brown or otherwise male or female or they want to have 5 penises...just get this (frank)ing club back in the win column but you do have to admit the Canucks Org for sure looking at optics right now. Gotta fill those seats...
You honestly believe that Bin Laden and a bunch of untrained pilots armed with nothing more than a laptop and a few cell phones from 4000 miles away toppled the WTC? lol...funny... - LordHumungous
No, they're actually hiring people they think will be good at the jobs. Don't try to implicate other people in your biases.
Hoping lol. Just want qualified folks to get this team back to the top 10. Don't give a sh!t if they white yellow black brown or otherwise male or female or they want to have 5 penises...just get this (frank)ing club back in the win column but you do have to admit the Canucks Org for sure looking at optics right now. Gotta fill those seats... - LordHumungous
You are implying that women aren't qualified which is evident by your constant crying and whining.
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Feb 10 @ 10:48 AM ET
Hoping lol. Just want qualified folks to get this team back to the top 10. Don't give a sh!t if they white yellow black brown or otherwise male or female or they want to have 5 penises...just get this (frank)ing club back in the win column but you do have to admit the Canucks Org for sure looking at optics right now. Gotta fill those seats...
You honestly believe that Bin Laden and a bunch of untrained ( flight simulator) 'pilots' armed with nothing more than a laptop and a few cell phones and box cutters from 4000 miles away toppled the WTC? lol...funny... - LordHumungous
