Yes people

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In general, yes-people respond to the secondary executives or their spokespersons. And, as can be immediately understood, yes-people obey rules as decided or dictated, but usually only those which the primary executors mean for them to understand.

Yes-people usually suffer from some form of social conditioning and depowerment, so they rarely become power contenders.

But by the well-known systems of social condititoning, including reward and punishsment, they are otherwise encouraged to become productive enough to get the work of the power-makers done.

Thus, yes-pepole are ideal to have power over because of their anticipated and agreeable obedience to the rules of power, even if they don't know exactly why or what they are.

As a large collective, yes-people conventionally accept the invisible aspects of powerdom, and are reluctant to consider powerdoms invisible and hidden aspects.

-- 8ball (side@pocket.com), April 09, 2001

Answers

No

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), April 09, 2001.

I fully agree with the original post and anything the poster will write in the future. Please delete and ban any poster that disagrees.

-- (yes@oh.yes), April 09, 2001.

Umm

-- (in @ the. middle), April 09, 2001.

I have always surrounded myself with "yes" people. I prefer suck-ups who defer to my superior insights. That is a problem with this forum.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 09, 2001.

Well said, Lars!!

-- (yes@oh.yes), April 09, 2001.


I dunno, Lars.

-- (in @ the. middle), April 09, 2001.

Well Lars, the problem is you, Unlike me who is always right (note embeddeds, y2k and my insiteful warnings about the things Bush would do). People always agree with me because I am always right.
Actually, I was wrong once.
You need to realise that you have to be right about everything, which makes it easier to convince people to Yes you all the time.

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), April 09, 2001.

"I don't want associates who only tell me what I want to hear. I want people who speak their mind. Is that clear?"

"Yes, sir!"

-- (Anything@you.say), April 09, 2001.


Cherri--

I was wrong once too. It sucks.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 09, 2001.


Please delete everything Cherri says. She's a DGI and should be banned.

-- (yes@oh.yes), April 09, 2001.


You need to get rid of that "yes" meme.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), April 09, 2001.

Delete Buddy too.

-- (yes@oh.yes), April 09, 2001.

Lars, yes, it sucks, so I told my yes-people not to let it happen again!

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), April 09, 2001.

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