Jon WorthJan 26

How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem? 🤔

It's not “I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member” but “Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to work for them, as there’s nothing I know they don’t know already”

But I do need to find paid work, somehow. Question is how and for whom?

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How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem?

"I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member" Groucho Marx is supposed to have said. And I have come to the view that I am facing something similar in my railway work. "Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to [...]

Jon Worth
Show threadDubious BlurJan 26

@jon I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. :)

My experience of big corporates is that there is an awful lot they don’t seem to know. Diseconomies of scale are real. Many group dysfunctions are to be found that work against their objectives.

Show threadJon WorthJan 26
@dubiousblur Perhaps. But they would still need to know what they don't know. (Now I am sounding like Donald Rumsfeld, not Groucho Marx)
Show threadSimon WaldmanJan 26
@jon @dubiousblur Seems to me that a lot of companies like to have expert consultants come and tell them what they already know so that they have been told it by somebody else? I don't know if this applies to railways, though.
Show threadDubious BlurJan 26
@jon @swaldman I think it’s after the fact - decisions made that consultants are used to justify?
Show threadSimon WaldmanJan 26
@dubiousblur @jon sometimes. And one would have to be pretty cynical to be happy in that role. But not always, at least not in all industries.
Show threadDubious Blur
@swaldman @jon sure. :) It’s maybe hard to tell one from the other from the outside tho.
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