THOUGHTS ON GIVING A LECTURE IN PUBLIC
I am in the middle or sorting out a few historical things concerning past work and a forthcoming public lecture.
One of the things I have now remembered, from the 1990s, is the rather cold hearted and even nasty responses that came my way after I wrote a firm critique of the following piece of writing from one Doctor in the USA and I quote it below and here :-
" Ninety to ninety-five percent of all people who lose their jobs do so because of a lack of interpersonal skills. Out of the top five qualities employers value most highly, three of them are directly related to interpersonal effectiveness. Skills of such importance should not be left to only genetics or chance. "
OK I critiqued this piece of Phd level writing rather firmly. I did not even try to suffer fools gladly.
But why, for being critical, did I get called a radical troublemaker by so many professionals?
I still think that Doctor is a raving idiot.