bogarde73 wrote on Dec 12
th, 2013 at 9:53am:
What 'fresh perspective' will a woman bring to car manufacturing, pray tell?
Well it always comes down to the individual in everything of course. But I've seen enough of male executives to know that they don't hold the key to the universe. They are often motivated by little else than ego and their desire to dominate.
The senior women I've seen, not that there are that many, seem to have a more collaborative approach, which is the kind of perspective I'm thinking of.
Look at Gail Kelly as an example. What a great job she's dome at Westpac.
This new GM woman looks as if she is amply qualified, come through the ranks etc.
You sound to me like you have a real problem with women, which is not what I expect from a thinking man.
I have absolutely zero problem with a woman getting ahead on her own merits - I DO have a serious problem with anyone getting ahead by being handed artificial props and deliberately exploiting policies that exclude others according to some ideology or philosophy of some mythical past lack of opportunity. I have a very serious problem with the socio-fascist stance of ENFORCING such nonsensical ideologies and philosophies - particularly when that enforcement - done without valid reason - directly impacts on myself and countless millions of others in our society - and always in a negative manner.
'more collaborative approach' - don't make me laugh. That is totally unjustifiable bullshit and based on parrot repetition of what you've been told - same as the absurd phrase 'women can offer a different perspective'. Your entire philosophy is riddled with contradiction - on the one hand you leap to the catch-phrases that support women - then almost in the same breath you say it's an individual thing.
Stoopid is as stoopid does - collaborative is as collaborative does - intelligent is as intelligent does. Any suggestion of superiority along gender, racial or other lines is EXACTLY the problem - and that - my son - is where your entire philosophy falls down by supporting these fanciful notions about women. SOME women are good at collaborating - such as my boss before last who started off employing two women and ended up with two long-term men - and it was a TWO WAY street. You need some experience in real management, I think.
As for the bank lady - the banks here are currently riding on a false premise - and their excessive incomes are buoyed up by the mad rush to enrich some through property scamming etc while actively excluding the many from the same arena - and also by their excessive and largely unwarranted fees.
Banks loan absurd amounts on inadequate support via income etc - knowing full well that in a 'boom' property market with ever-increasing numbers of fools buying in from overseas (when the local till runs dry) - the inevitable failure of countless thousands of families to sustain their repayments mean the bank can foreclose and come out smelling like roses.
http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/foreclosures-rise-as-more-borrowers-fa...Further - there is a growing industry of outright vultures waiting to chew on the carcasses of families here - and these same vultures expect every consideration and help from government in doing so, through negative gearing and so forth:-
http://wealthcreationseminars.net/foreclosure-listings-australia%E2%80%93where-f...Now I don't know about you - but I see a more than clear policy structure in place here to achieve what I always warn of here and elsewhere - the creation of an artificially impoverished neo-serf class who will be beggars on the streets of life while a few self-appointed neo-mandarins will be riding their satanic hearses of greed and selfishness all the way to the bank.
They (the banks, the vultures, the governments and those riders in satanic hearses) are thus contributing to the economic and social disaster looming for the West - but let me again say this - I will guarantee you their 'ceos' and other bullshit artists will sneak off into the nightfall of disaster and find a nice safe and well-heeled retirement somewhere else, leaving behind a trail of destruction for the many.
Any idiot could make a business work under those conditions where they make the rules and change them at whim to suit their 'bottom line', and then, like government, just make up any 'shortfall' by taking it from the customers on demand.
Again -these are part of the problem and not of the solution, and what this country, and the rest of the West needs - are positive policies that do not favour small selected social groups.
Quite frankly - there is no room left in the till for such luxury rides for some at the expense of the majority.
FINAL WARNING NOTE:-
Drive enough people to the wall financially and socially, and one day they will be desperate enough to accept the Fascist control of government, work, banks/money and so forth - since they will see no other viable alternative to the current violent and savagely disempowering 'laissez faire' out-of-control greed and mismanagement than a totally controlled economy and society. This is precisely what happened in Germany and Italy pre-World War II, and even I am beginning to advocate such Uberkontrol as the ONLY viable means of bringing the current insanities under control.