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]]> http://multi-medium.net/2005/09/11/the-trouble-with-competence#comment-35123 Multi Medium » Better To Be Useful Than Right Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:55:39 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2005/09/11/the-trouble-with-competence/#comment-35123 [...] winning handily every time.  It’s very similar (and related) to the conflict between loyalty and competence, with the exact same [...] [...] winning handily every time.  It’s very similar (and related) to the conflict between loyalty and competence, with the exact same [...]

]]> http://multi-medium.net/2005/09/11/the-trouble-with-competence#comment-20755 Multi Medium » Feith-Based Hiring Sun, 27 May 2007 14:29:47 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2005/09/11/the-trouble-with-competence/#comment-20755 [...] About two years ago, I wrote a post about the conflict between loyalty and competence, especially in BushCo.  Monica Goodling’s hiring practices at DOJ are one example of this principle in action, but this one might be even more shocking: At a recent forum, career U.S. intelligence officer Patrick Lang recounted a job interview he had with neocon war architect Douglas Feith. Lang, who had previously run the Pentagon’s world-wide spying operations, “was put forward as somebody who would be good at running the Pentagon’s office of special operations and low-intensity warfare, i.e., counterinsurgency.” So he was interviewed by Feith: “He was sitting there munching a sandwich while he was talking to me,” Lang recalled, “which I thought was remarkable in itself, but he also had these briefing papers — they always had briefing papers, you know — about me. [...] [...] About two years ago, I wrote a post about the conflict between loyalty and competence, especially in BushCo.  Monica Goodling’s hiring practices at DOJ are one example of this principle in action, but this one might be even more shocking: At a recent forum, career U.S. intelligence officer Patrick Lang recounted a job interview he had with neocon war architect Douglas Feith. Lang, who had previously run the Pentagon’s world-wide spying operations, “was put forward as somebody who would be good at running the Pentagon’s office of special operations and low-intensity warfare, i.e., counterinsurgency.” So he was interviewed by Feith: “He was sitting there munching a sandwich while he was talking to me,” Lang recalled, “which I thought was remarkable in itself, but he also had these briefing papers — they always had briefing papers, you know — about me. [...]

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