John accidentally got himself into a Facebook Commitment for a party and had to miss his sister's wedding.
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The assholes in the steering committee really fucked this regional meeting. Like...really fucked it.
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by escaped mental patient January 21, 2010
Get the Welcome Committee mug.committing is a rare occurence in which the person committing cums, vomits, and shits themselves in a convulsive manner. Usually done after participating in some hideous act as in sleeping with an ugly girl or seeing someone doing something that warrants the convulsive act.
Dude: Guy last night i slept with this hideous bitch!
Guy: What did you do?
Dude: I looked at her and committed all over the place.
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Dude: I looked at her and committed all over the place.
Guy: Legendary committing action!!!
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A counter to the older, pro-teamwork adage "None of us are as smart as all of us."
Speaks to the risk of lower-level workers' input being useless if upper management gives its own opinion first, due to the tendency of workers to fall in line once the position of the leader (who could fire them for dissent) is known.
The wording above was written on a wall at NASA's Houston complex after the Challenger disaster, as reported by astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Although the concept has long been known of, once it took the form of an aphorism, it acquired a viral quality.
A counter to the older, pro-teamwork adage "None of us are as smart as all of us."
Speaks to the risk of lower-level workers' input being useless if upper management gives its own opinion first, due to the tendency of workers to fall in line once the position of the leader (who could fire them for dissent) is known.
The wording above was written on a wall at NASA's Houston complex after the Challenger disaster, as reported by astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Although the concept has long been known of, once it took the form of an aphorism, it acquired a viral quality.
Niels Bohr and son Aage asked low-level engineer Richard Feynman their questions before asking higher-ups like Oppenheimer, partly to avoid taking up important administrators' time, but also to avoid Kelly's law of committees. Asking the higher-ups first, with lower-level workers present, would have a chilling effect on the latter's offering their own ideas and concerns.
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