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Thinking aloud...I wonder if the ancient Greek methods of sortition and ostracism have any place in building teams at companies. Obviously election (selecting
by m52go 9y ago
Thinking aloud...I wonder if the ancient Greek methods of sortition and ostracism have any place in building teams at companies.
Obviously election (selecting people from a group) is hit-or-miss anyway...so maybe reverse-election (eliminating people from a group) could help.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoAs a kid, one of the comic books I loved was the sci-fi Scrameustache [1]. One of the recurring characters was a society of aliens called "Galaxians", who's society was based on extreme sortition. Every week (or day?), they traded posts. One would be a squad leader one day and the janitor the next. Even as a kid, I realized this was a flawed concept, because it assumed experience and knowledge were fungible. Still, it was fun to think about... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrameustache https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrameustache [2] http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-682-BD-Scrameustache.html http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-682-BD-Scrameustache.html