--- Below is my comment on Margaret Heffernan's Huffington Post Blog Entry "WSJ: An Old Guy's Plaything" ---
Ms. Heffernan, I think you have a bit of a perception problem in terms of the human condition. I think you maybe mistaking well heeled, well bred, well placed, well connected and well dressed as indicators of humans evolving to a higher level.
If the old guard of a corporation were rapacious, alcoholic, whore-mongers in their Fraternity Days at "Grand Old Ivy", what makes you think a corner office and a multi-million dollar compensation package would change their basic nature?
The new breed of men, you think may change the way things are done, haven't made it to the catbird seat yet. Once they approach the higher corporate echelons and get a taste of the treasures that await them, they will vanquish their egalitarian pretensions, in terms of sex and race, and will get with the established program. You really think the suits that currently inhabit the hallowed, oaken halls of corporate leadership haven't found a way to accommodate both strippers and a daughter in Grad School in their lives? Come on.
Business, at its heart, like so many other human endeavors, is a game. In recent decades woman and minorities have been granted access to the gaming table, but were presented with a carefully abridged version of the rule-book. The old guard, like wise cardsharps, aren't going to change things to undermine their hand ... they are there to win.
As others have already commented, you have to either accept the rules of the house, or build your own casino.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
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