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But if course, this is exactly the kind of hardcore game that attracts hidebound players who scream bloody murder at things like alternate maps.

These are reactive, hidebound institutions that have been able to go for at least a century without transformative reforms. They're rather overdue for it.

This isn't a case of a hidebound academia and a fantastically innovative private sector. Really, the opposite is true.

Read: Management is hidebound and petty. No possibility for compromise exists.

>> read: Management is hidebound and petty. No possibility for compromise exists.

IT would become like making airplanes, hidebound, rigorously engineered by crank turning second-raters. It would never ever change, except in terms of marketing, like cigarettes.

Before merging, Lockheed and Martin both had the reputation of being really hidebound. From experience, Martin was exceptionally married to processes and procedures and tradition.

Yes computer programming is a young profession that isn't as hidebound as many others, but it is maturing and as is true for most other professions, soon proxies will dominate hiring.

But that doesn't mean that there are just two positions here: hidebound classicists and utterly-loosey-goosey "the manner in which I took a shower this morning was ART" hippies. I can be open-minded about art and still think that " "Art" is just a descriptor that can be given to any noun at the discretion of any observer."

Modern, top-tier MBA programs are increasingly driven by entrepreneurship, and less by traditional, hidebound business courses and corporate line-management skills. A lot has changed, and much of it changed in reaction to the embarrassments of the late '90s.

And now AirBNB, the poster child of internet disintermediation of old, hidebound industries, is caught totally unprepared for a business model threatening crisis that everyone should have seen coming. I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks that there's a lot of willful ignorance underlying this boom we're all enjoying.

You don't have to be a hidebound corporation with 100k employees to benefit from being explicit about the manager communicating feedback and from setting aside time for this to explicitly happen. Not to mention that many founders are learning how to be a manager, and often are far from clear about their expectations.

And in its place we created a hidebound monstrosity, an incomprehensible series of trade regulations that were nearly impossible to navigate. Of course this protectionism only drove us deeper into the Depression, caused global output to plummet to historic lows, made the global economic engine seize like an un-oiled V8, and threw lit thermite into the already smoldering tinderbox of militant nationalism.

I can't image that the traditional schools will be any good at this if they do try, given long-standing academic hostilities towards the business of being in business, but some of the younger less hidebound institutions might well be successful. Consider the present University of Phoenix, a future Khan Academy, and a range of other entities establishing their own early stage venture funds, or partnering with venture funds to do something new in this space - it isn't so far fetched an idea.

Any hidebound culture filled with red tape has horror stories and experiences that seem to justify every broken thing they do. If your answer to a usability critique is "they should learn the last several years of Wikipedia history, which isn't documented anywhere, and understand where all these rules came from", isn't that just a concession that you might as well not even bother unless contributing to Wikipedia is going to be one of your primary hobbies for the foreseeable future?

People intelligent enough to realise that kids are historically early-adopters and re-shapers of technology, pioneering uses and social integrations which, while dismissed as trivial by ignorant, hidebound adults, often end up exploding into mainstream popularity and defining the future of technology.

If there was ever a hidebound company rapidly outliving its usefulness, it was Boeing. And the company is struggling. In airliners, they keep getting beat by Airbus, and time after time comes up second, third, fourth best in defense bids. Once, when they lost a defense bid to Airbus for a tanker, they lobbied to have the military run the selection over again. The entire aerospace industry has been bureaucratic and hidebound for decades.