Carnival of the Capitalists for July 23, 2007…

Thank you for your visit and your always gracious comments.

The truth is, after an initial, sort of “drive by” attack on our ideas, it was immediately clear to me that we needed very much to incorporate the additional discipline of this person’s manner of thinking into our proposals before presenting them formally.

Ironically, the flip side of his inability to properly view the problem and means of solving it was the very cap to our ability to produce a professionally finished product.

I would love to say that our keeping him in the team reflected our elevated character, but the truth is: we were lucky to discover early on that we simply had no choice!

I really think that most of us, really, don’t. We need the continuous irritation of diversity of thinking and opinion to avoid the cataclysm of disaster that typically follows on the false bliss of groupthink.

As for the story about keeping him in the group and managing his presence without mayhem ensuing, that is a bit of a tale; maybe I’ll tell it at some point.

Thanks again, Steve, for your kind comments.

I’m visualizing your group and thinking “Would I have the patience and insight to hang in there and do that?” I’m ashamed to say I’m not so sure.

Something else that interests me and might be helpful to other readers is this: You must have had to convince the rest of the prospective lynch mob to hang in there.

If that was so, the story could be very enlightening.