07-28-2016, 05:36 PM
(07-28-2016, 05:27 PM)chaosvrgn Wrote:(07-28-2016, 02:37 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote: Shannon, you're a fan of Star Trek, right? I think what DMSI needs to create (through the user) is a "reality distortion field"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
"Jobs could also use the RDF to appropriate other's ideas as his own, sometimes proposing an idea to its originator after dismissing it the week before."
The CEO of the company I worked for in California used to do this to me all the time. And I mean BLATANTLY. Got to the point where we would incorporate it into our strategy to getting things approved. We called it "Inceptioning" him. We'd present items in a certain manner, knowing he'd reject it, steal it and ask us to do it the following week.
Everyone wants to be the hero of the story.