ClayoquotKid
Active Member
Thanks for aptly and copiously demonstrating the denial mentality of your industry, SF and CK.
Don't forget to add: "We are the CULTURED fish professionals", CK - because you are definately NOT the wild fish professionals.
Don't confuse the term "professional" (getting paid to raise cultured Atlantic salmon) with "expert" or "specialist". Getting paid as a media shrill only means you are expert in the ways of lying.
Your lack of humility and corporate arrogance and hubris is overwhelming, CK. Can't wait for the judge to see this also.
the "Twelve Signs Arrogance Is Running Your Company" adapted from:
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101220_008468.htm
1. You hire and develop great people but then fail to listen to their input if it is nonconformist thinking.
2. Your company [and shrills] rationalizes its mistakes instead of learning from them.
3. Your company focuses almost exclusively on financial success with little regard for legacy and social impact.
4. Your company [and shrills] lobbies against sound regulations because they may add complexity to the way you operate.
5. Your leaders [and shrills] pat themselves on the back when the company succeeds financially, even though success derived from market forces rather than actual performance.
6. Your leaders [and shrills] believe the company can't fail.
7. Your leaders [and shrills] dictate more than they listen.
8. The company underestimates its competition and minimizes the success competitors achieve.
9. Access to top leadership in the company requires wading through multiple layers of bureaucracy.
10. There is a focus on amassing the trappings of success: large, well-appointed offices, chauffeured cars, private jets, and the like.
11. Your company doesn't become a partner in a merger; it takes over, losing the value of the [wild fish] culture and learning the other organization might have provided.
12. Your company suffers from "Not Diseased Here Syndrome," believing it holds the monopoly on great ideas, so that innovations coming from the outside ("Not researched Here") are deemed to hold little value.
Taking Stock
If you answered "yes" to more than six of these signs, your company has a dangerously high arrogance index.
So - let's have a poll here. Who believes CK shows fish-farm institutionalized arrogance using the above criteria?
Some more "Copy Pasta" and ad hominem attacks Aqua?
Why can't you seem to stick to the presentation of evidence?
What is your counter to my position that as salmon farmers we need to know what is going on with our fish in order to make money?
Are you still trying to claim that we're hiding a disease which causes up to 90% mortality?
It speaks volumes that when you are pressed with hard logic you simply resort to name calling and a "poll" of your peers to try to demonize and shame me.
We're not on the schoolyard here, you don't need to act like a third grade bully trying to subdue a victim who has just pointed out that he failed a test.
I completely disagree with almost everything you say on here Aqua and I feel that salmon farmers have proven that they can effectively manage their stocks in a way that poses very little risk to wild fish.
I think history shows this and no amount of posturing and speculation from your side can change the fact that a total lack of evidence to date can only mean that as technology and understanding progresses the inevitable result will be, if anything, an incredibly small impact.
Then, it may just be up to the world to decide whether to support an industry that grows fish with minimal impact to wild stocks and managed risk, or continue to support one that exclusively relies on killing them for revenue.
I don't need to call anyone names on here Aqua, I'm just going to point out the big picture stuff for you guys to think about.
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