[ExI] france again

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 pgptag at gmail.com
Thu May 31 11:19:08 UTC 2007


Based on the behaviour of most Americans I have worked with, they are
frequently only pretending to work to impress their boss, their
colleagues or (even worse) themselves: giving in to the delusion that
drafting a useless memo that nobody will ever read is a demonstration
of seriousness and committment.

Note: if saying "Americans" is an overgeneralization, saying
"Europeans" is a *very big* overgeneralization: behaviour and in
particular work ethics vary a lot in Europe. Anybody who has worked
with people from different EU countries knows that, for example,
Germans and Italians tend to show quite different behaviours.

As a Southern European I think that our big strength is flexibility
and a certain propensity to bypass regulations to get something done,
and our big weakness is our absolute inability to focus on routine
tasks (that is a big weakness indeed, as in most complex tasks 90% is
routine).

But, my European friends, let's not rejoice: I fear Americans are just
better than us at getting things done.

G.

On 5/31/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:42:12AM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:
>
> > Europeans were only slightly less productive than the Americans.
>
> Nobody can tell me they can work at full concentration 12 hours
> straight. The effective work done would be somewhere in 7-8
> hour range. So why spend these unproductive hours at work,
> when one could spend them in a much nicer environment?
>
> --
> Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
> ______________________________________________________________
> ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org
> 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>



More information about the extropy-chat mailing list