"Kim Stanley Robinson - Forty Signs of Rain" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Kim Stanley)

though naturally cheaper was better. Longer and more expensive than that, and the new drug or method
would almost certainly be abandoned; the money would run out, and the scientists involved would by
necessity move on to something else.

In this case, however, where Leo was dealing with a method that Derek Gaspar had bought for fifty-one
million dollars, there could be no stage-one human trials. They would be impossible. тАЬNo oneтАЩs gonna let
themselves be blown up like a balloon! Blown up like a goddamn bike tire! Your kidneys would get
swamped or some kind of edema would kill you.тАЭ

тАЬWeтАЩre going to have to tell Derek the bad news.тАЭ

тАЬDerek is not going to like it.тАЭ

тАЬNot going to like it! Fifty-one million dollars? HeтАЩs going to hate it!тАЭ

тАЬThink about blowing that much money. What an idiot he is.тАЭ

тАЬIs it worse to have a scientist who is a bad businessman as your CEO, or a businessman who is a bad
scientist?тАЭ

тАЬWhat about when theyтАЩre both?тАЭ

They sat around the bench looking at the mice cages and the rolls of data sheets. A Dilbert cartoon
mocked them as it peeled away from the end of the counter. It was a sign of something deep that this lab
had Dilberts taped to the walls rather than Far Sides.

тАЬAn in-person meeting for this particular communication is contraindicated,тАЭ said Brian.

тАЬNo shit,тАЭ Leo said.

Marta snorted. тАЬYou canтАЩt get a meeting with him anyway.тАЭ
тАЬHa ha.тАЭ But Leo was far enough out on the periphery of Torrey Pines GeneriqueтАЩs power structure that
getting a meeting with Derek was indeed difficult.

тАЬItтАЩs true,тАЭ Marta insisted. тАЬYou might as well be trying to schedule a doctorтАЩs appointment.тАЭ

тАЬWhich is stupid,тАЭ Brian pointed out. тАЬThe company is totally dependent on what happens in this lab.тАЭ

тАЬNot totally,тАЭ Leo said.

тАЬYes it is! But thatтАЩs not what the business schools teach these guys. The lab is just another place of
production. Management tells production what to produce, and the place of production produces it.
Input from the agency of production would be wrong.тАЭ

тАЬLike the assembly line choosing what to make,тАЭ Marta said.

тАЬRight. Thus the idiocy of business management theory in our time.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩll send him an e-mail,тАЭ Leo decided.