When we are looking for people to do skilled jobs the best way to narrow down who would be good at the job is to test for the basic attributes which experience has shown produce the best of these groups. We then take these and train them, some dropping away, until we have our experienced people ready to take their place in the real world.
In certain areas it is difficult to have any practical experience before you actually start work in a role. Astronaut, brain surgeon, soldier, etc. spring to mind and we train them even more on simulators and in test environments for a very long time before we use them in a real scenario.
Now there is yet another area which pretty much stands out on it’s own as something you cannot perform outside training and simulation is running a country.
So why do we just allow any bunch of tosspots to come along and have a go? Well firstly we don’t get offered too many options and most are already firmly entrenched in their policies and views. Policies and views btw we have already seen in action many times in the past so we know roughly where it will lead before we even start. Secondly, for some reason when they make promises we always seem to believe them. Yet they never deliver. It’s our fault.
But let’s now take a tip from our favourite government, our current Labour one. They are up in arms because none of the current head bankers have any real life banking experience. Personally, I think it makes little difference at that level but, hey ho, who am I to argue with the greatest minds in the UK.
I think that we should insist that our potential cabinet be made up of people who have been through the right training and background experience and before you think I mean degrees in politics from what I can see that just seems to train them in lying using weasel words and manipulation. I mean experience actually managing a company or at least something that makes P&L from a living breathing workforce in the private sector.
At the very least as part of the test we can give them before they are viable to go up for election we can make them put their policies through something like SimCity or something. Hell, they can play the classic version here. Saves them claiming the game on expenses by accident.
Then when they can give a good showing at running an economy then they can go out and get some votes and if they can lie convincingly enough they get to do it for real.
Everyone in the world knows that income greater than outgoings is good. Income less than outgoings is bad yet Gordo has had us spending more than we earn so much so he has stolen from our grandchildren. Most of whom would be unlikely to ever vote Labour. Talk about presumptuous and lets face it, although I’ve not heard about it for a while either since they were bailed out, but they couldn’t even balance the books at their own little cakes and booze club without someone giving them free cash and they have the arrogance to think they can run a country.
We are in the computer age now. We can test a lot more than the size of the smile of the crocodiles teeth. Let’s get all these people to show what they can do before we say Yes. We could set up simulators from on everything from the economy to education as well as these psychrometric tests to see if they are potential expense fraudsters. Hell we should buy Maxis and make our own simulators for everything we want to test. So why don’t we do it? Sounds a valid option to me.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
We need skilled people at the top
When we are looking for people to do skilled jobs the best way to narrow down who would be good at the job is to test for the basic attributes which experience has shown produce the best of these groups. We then take these and train them, some dropping away, until we have our experienced people ready to take their place in the real world.
In certain areas it is difficult to have any practical experience before you actually start work in a role. Astronaut, brain surgeon, soldier, etc. spring to mind and we train them even more on simulators and in test environments for a very long time before we use them in a real scenario.
Now there is yet another area which pretty much stands out on it’s own as something you cannot perform outside training and simulation is running a country.
So why do we just allow any bunch of tosspots to come along and have a go? Well firstly we don’t get offered too many options and most are already firmly entrenched in their policies and views. Policies and views btw we have already seen in action many times in the past so we know roughly where it will lead before we even start. Secondly, for some reason when they make promises we always seem to believe them. Yet they never deliver. It’s our fault.
But let’s now take a tip from our favourite government, our current Labour one. They are up in arms because none of the current head bankers have any real life banking experience. Personally, I think it makes little difference at that level but, hey ho, who am I to argue with the greatest minds in the UK.
I think that we should insist that our potential cabinet be made up of people who have been through the right training and background experience and before you think I mean degrees in politics from what I can see that just seems to train them in lying using weasel words and manipulation. I mean experience actually managing a company or at least something that makes P&L from a living breathing workforce in the private sector.
At the very least as part of the test we can give them before they are viable to go up for election we can make them put their policies through something like SimCity or something. Hell, they can play the classic version here. Saves them claiming the game on expenses by accident.
Then when they can give a good showing at running an economy then they can go out and get some votes and if they can lie convincingly enough they get to do it for real.
Everyone in the world knows that income greater than outgoings is good. Income less than outgoings is bad yet Gordo has had us spending more than we earn so much so he has stolen from our grandchildren. Most of whom would be unlikely to ever vote Labour. Talk about presumptuous and lets face it, although I’ve not heard about it for a while either since they were bailed out, but they couldn’t even balance the books at their own little cakes and booze club without someone giving them free cash and they have the arrogance to think they can run a country.
We are in the computer age now. We can test a lot more than the size of the smile of the crocodiles teeth. Let’s get all these people to show what they can do before we say Yes. We could set up simulators from on everything from the economy to education as well as these psychrometric tests to see if they are potential expense fraudsters. Hell we should buy Maxis and make our own simulators for everything we want to test. So why don’t we do it? Sounds a valid option to me.