The entire premise of my book, "Assertive Incompetence" is that management
is based on lies.

Underlying the lies is the statement "Perception is Reality!".

This is a very difficult lie to overcome even though we should be able to
recognize from a little analysis that just because you perceive the cyanide
is a sugar pill, that the pool is full of water while you are standing on
the diving board, and that your selections of business management are
successes at a time that the business is going bankrupt from your business
decisions, that the reality isn't still fatal. You can perceive all you
want until you're dead from your perceptions.

So here's another lie exposed, this time about the H-1B workers and how
necessary it is to continue to hire foreign workers:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html

Note just one quote:

"When the industry claims a shortage of programmers, what they mean is a
shortage of cheap programmers. A September 28, 2000 article in the Chicago
Tribune said it succinctly:

``If you're willing to pay market rate, you can find people,'' said Pete
Georgiadis, founder and CEO of eBlast Ventures, a company that funds and
builds technology firms. ``The issue is if you're budget-constrained, you
can't get the people you want.''

"The fact that the industry cries of ``shortage'' were nothing more than a
political ploy was illustrated by the fact that heavy layoffs in the
industry began around January 2001, just two months after the industry
lobbyists were insisting to Congress that there was a ``desperate''
shortage (and nearly a year after the NASDAQ stock index started falling).
In the economic slowdown of 2001, employers became even pickier than
before. Whereas before a job ad might require only Java, the same ad now
was phrased something like ``Requires Java and XML, in real estate
applications, residential real estate preferred.''"

To say that perception is reality is the same as saying that faith is
reality.

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