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Academics

There’s two reasons why it’s very hard to be in business with academics.

The first is that they generally think they’re the world’s expert at everything. This view is validated and calibrated by the fact that they possibly are, in some arcane little corner of academic bullshit. As a result, it’s hard to get them to change their position on anything.

The second and more important issue is that they have no idea about management processes or accountability. If you by some miracle manage to drag them into a meeting which has an agreed process withb intended consensus outcomes, there’s virtually no chance they’ll feel obliged to either observe said outcomes, or even participate in the process.

It’s not their fault. This is how universities operate.

In fact universities are totally authoritarian. Rules get synthesized on high and then forced down the throats of the academics. The rule makers are ex academics that know there’s no other way. It’s a self fulfilling fuck fest.

And there you have it.