Or as Brad Shorr once pointed out , in this case corrugated creativity…
This ad made me smile. (Link to McDonalds new Kid’s Meal ad over at Creativity Online)
The ability to automate, dig deep, pre-sort, evaluate, chew, swallow, and spit out decisions without really understanding the implications or assumptions hard-wired in the set-up can be a rather large problem. A recent Wall Street Journal article by David Wessel about the use (overuse?) of software to screen job candidates got me to thinking about the costs of overly picky employment systems.