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Every now and then you read something that just puts a smile on your face.  We are in the process of recruiting another developer and today a recruitment consultant sent me an email quoting Harvard business management logic as to why we should recruit even more people.. hmm.. so he is suggesting that we follow the steps of Harvard alumni such as:

• Stan O’Neal & John Thain - Chief Executives, Merrill Lynch
• Andy Hornby - Chief Executive, HBOS
• Christoper Cox - Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Jeff Skilling - Chief Executive, Enron
• Rick Wagoner - Chief Executive, General Motors
• George W Bush - need I say more?

and of course a very funny quote from Andrew Lahde, a hedge fund manager who made a fortune during the downturn, “The low-hanging fruit, ie idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking… All of this behaviour supporting the aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades.”

Now don’t get me wrong, I have some friends who have graduated from Harvard and they are lovely hard working people who deserve the success they have found, but none the less the recruitment consultant did put a smile on my face.

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