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Good point. Very good point. But wouldn't "fake it till you make it" have a chance here?
by AlexTWithBeard 8y ago
Good point. Very good point.
But wouldn't "fake it till you make it" have a chance here?
- lordnacho 8y agoIf you "make it", it's not fake. Sure they could pay people what tech firms pay and treat them the same way, but then it wouldn't be fake. What's fake is trying to get real results without real change.
- theoh 8y agoWhen cargo cult thinking applies to organizational structure, it's called mimetic isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_isomorphism. There's nothing inherently fake about that, but contextual factors might make it inappropriate, whether or not the raison d'etre of a particular org structure is understood by the participants. Art institutions in peripheral cities are often victims of mimetic isomorphism. They try to emulate what institutions in major art centres are doing, but without the supporting thick soup of intellectual and artistic talent.