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This is the important analysis here. People who think in systems (as programmers often do) sometimes fail to understand this. At some point, every human instit
by wwweston 6y ago
This is the important analysis here.
People who think in systems (as programmers often do) sometimes fail to understand this. At some point, every human institutional is more human than institution and it's only having people who will choose to do the right thing in place to exercise authority on behalf of the right thing who will make this happen.
Some problems have social solutions -- political solutions, even -- not technical ones. Personnel is policy.
- pksebben 6y agoIt's for this very reason I'm so enamored with the concept of organizational fragmenting - gore-tex does it, and it's the sort of de facto method of restructuring that goes on in online communities: the idea is that when you get so big you need to create new vertical controls, you split horizontally - control is never vested in a central authority (instead, teams are responsible for their zone, and communicate with each other when necessary). This has the power to make it much more difficult to achieve economic capture. It's way harder to buy off key figures in 8 different hierarchies than it is to just dump a load of money on a single CEO. (this)[https://www.managementexchange.com/story/innovation-democracy-wl-gores-original-management-model https://www.managementexchange.com/story/innovation-democrac...] is one of the better write-ups on such a structure that I could find.