"You don’t get what you deserve; you get what you negotiate." 🧵

"What distinguishes #Powertalk is that with every word uttered, the power equation between the two speakers shifts just a little. Sometimes both gain slightly, at the expense of some poor schmuck. Sometimes one yields ground to the other. Powertalk in other words, is a consequential language."

Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-ii-posturetalk-powertalk-babytalk-and-gametalk/

#office #merit #management #organizations #workCollectives #workCulture #power #negotiating #quotes

@data @datadon
"Obtaining the data is a hard human problem. That is, 'people don’t want to give it to you'."

You can "use your allies on the bottom (front-line workers) and the top (executives) to squeeze out your opponents in the middle (managers, often in IT or data science departments").

Sarah Constantin: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-great-data-integration-schlep

#industry #power #factory #processes #dataPrivacy #confidentiality #dataDon #dataGovernance #security #dataAccess #analytics #powerTalk #data #dataAnalysis #losers