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Yes, and if you're managing young people starting out on their careers there's a lot more to it; managing talent involves looking after the individual and seeing the signs that an ambitious young person might be pushing himself beyond his limits. Modern sports coaching education pays attention to this; ambition, talent and hard work are great, but some of the most talented young people in any field are also very vulnerable; this guy showed all the classic signs; he'd written an application letter about how he had always been pushed to succeed, how he would always go further to make a success of things, and he had obviously never experienced failure. Modern coaches (as opposed to some of the 'drill sergeant' types of the past that belong in the history books and who often achieved short term gains at the expense of ruined long term careers) are taught to spot these signs and take action to protect talented young people against themselves to stop them overtraining, injuring themselves or ending up in a heap on the floor. The young guy had written about being pushed by his family to always be the best in everything ; he perhaps misinterpreted them as I wonder what his mother would have said if she'd seen him in the state people are in after a couple of days without sleep. He showed all the classic signs of someone who is talented, or even gifted, diligent, hard working and potentially self destructive. Add to that, he had epilepsy, although to be fair I don't now if his employer knew that.
It seems to me nobody picked up on this; perhaps because many managers have not had the right training to look after young ambitious people or perhaps because working all several nighters in a short time had become the orthodoxy, and we all know what happens to people who challenge the orthodoxy in th corporate environment. It's a very sad story indeed; I'm not going to call for gummint regulation of internships because I don't have that much faith in the gummint, but I hope the management learn some lessons from this; Unfortunately I doubt they will as they grew up in the same orthodoxy.
To all the objectors on this site or the Wail who say 'we did this in the past' or 'the army do this all the time' I'd say two things; firstly, the fact that something has been this way for a long time is no justification. For a long time Europeans practised Galenic medicine and bloodletting, until they discovered something better and life expectancy almost doubled. Now we know there are better ways to get the best out of people. Secondly, in the army they're busy with a war; the officers are highly trained in how to get the best out of young recruits, modern scientific insights are used and the officer has real responsibility for his charges and has to account for what happens to them. Army leadership looks all 'shouty shouty' to outsiders but actually it involves a lot of responsibility, good training and an understanding of the human being that very few in corporate-land have mastered. It also provides the best possible medical care in the circumstances and army vicars, priests, rabbis, imams and so on are highly trained in providing pastoral care to young people.
It's a crying shame but I don't imagine it's going to change until some people sort their attitudes out.
Look at this. It is obvious to someone with any training in managing young people that this guy needed to be watched carefully;
The last bit that's underlined should make it crystal clear, even to someone with no coaching education or leadership training, who they were dealing with. It's a bloody disgrace that this wasn't managed properly.
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I have two more clients vying for my time at the moment and a client that is paying me about £500 per productive hour. I am starting to get tempted to take a few extra jobs on to fill my time, although that would mean I would have to do a little flounce from here for a while 
I have another very good mate who is also a ninja architect like me and he is also finding that the air is rarified at the top maybe its just the SA's
