Comments on: Why does cynicism sell? (This site sucks) http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/why-does-cynicism-sell-this-site-sucks/ Management and Creative Thinking Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lenore http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/why-does-cynicism-sell-this-site-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-540192 Lenore Sat, 02 May 2009 14:36:39 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1763#comment-540192 I found your advice to be thoughtful,amusing, and well planned...thank you. I found your advice to be thoughtful,amusing, and well planned…thank you.

]]> By: Megan http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/why-does-cynicism-sell-this-site-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-534802 Megan Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:32:45 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1763#comment-534802 Perfectly stated!!! It's about time someone actually drew attention to this, and pointed out the obvious... I guess other blogs who make such false comments, with ill-informed and basic one-liner comments are, in-effect, summing up their blog readership and the calibre of people they may attract... Perfectly stated!!! It’s about time someone actually drew attention to this, and pointed out the obvious… I guess other blogs who make such false comments, with ill-informed and basic one-liner comments are, in-effect, summing up their blog readership and the calibre of people they may attract…

]]> By: Sandy http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/why-does-cynicism-sell-this-site-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-531258 Sandy Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:18:14 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1763#comment-531258 I'm more with Scott. My experience has been that inveterate boosters tend to gloss over inconvenient facts that make their forecasts of a new golden age so much horse-carbon-footprint. It's not that cool new things are bad; it's that boosterism--particularly on the part of the latest management fad--is often done by ex-practitioners who have lost the feel for what This All Means when the rubber hits the road. Seriously, if I see Tom Peters gushing about a new "game-changer" "transformative" method of business-doing, I'm pretty sure I can safely ignore it. There might be some good nuggets in there, but you have to go through a lot of that horse-carbon-footprint to get to them. If inveterate boosters wouldn't make such outlandishly exaggerated claims, people like me wouldn't become inveterate cynics. If you manage to impress a cynic, I'll listen. If you are chronically pounding sunshine up my carbon-emission-pipe, I'm probably going to ignore you. I’m more with Scott. My experience has been that inveterate boosters tend to gloss over inconvenient facts that make their forecasts of a new golden age so much horse-carbon-footprint.

It’s not that cool new things are bad; it’s that boosterism–particularly on the part of the latest management fad–is often done by ex-practitioners who have lost the feel for what This All Means when the rubber hits the road. Seriously, if I see Tom Peters gushing about a new “game-changer” “transformative” method of business-doing, I’m pretty sure I can safely ignore it. There might be some good nuggets in there, but you have to go through a lot of that horse-carbon-footprint to get to them.

If inveterate boosters wouldn’t make such outlandishly exaggerated claims, people like me wouldn’t become inveterate cynics. If you manage to impress a cynic, I’ll listen. If you are chronically pounding sunshine up my carbon-emission-pipe, I’m probably going to ignore you.

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