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Results? Merit? I don’t know that politics and the ability of manipulative sociopaths to seize control will ever be supplanted by mere merit.

This article by venkatesh rao on the series THE OFFICE explains it all and is a must read if you think the office is Shakespeare for our time,

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/%5B/quote%5D

Found the article to be quite humorous. Thanks for providing.