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No, and while the nuances are pretty deep, it basically boils down to the fact that this behavior is necessary for the survival of any complex system.

• Razengan 3y ago
  "We have tried nothing and we give up."
  • natpalmer1776 3y ago
    I mean, I did say it was nuanced. You could with the right people across the entire organization succeed without and actively combat the manifestation of this effect for as long as those, or like minded, people remain… but given the fact that organizations have a bidirectional relationship with people and culture, over a long enough period of time the organization will inevitably revert to the mean. In more broad terms, I described the path of least resistance for a complex system (the default mode), while “you” are asking for a system that deviates from that path, which requires the introduction of entropy. As can be observed in many other fields, the total entropy of a system over a long enough period of time will always trend towards zero. Given the specifics of this particular model are bound by social behaviors you could in theory create a culture that has a default mode that does not have the issue described, but to do so you would have to start at a much higher level than a single organization and thus for the purposes of the point I was making it is moot. Even having said all of this, there is still a great deal more left unsaid that lead me to believe this to be true.
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