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Water molecules don't tend to have their own unique and distinct set of beliefs and philosophies regarding a near-infinite range of ideas, a structured hierarch
by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Water molecules don't tend to have their own unique and distinct set of beliefs and philosophies regarding a near-infinite range of ideas, a structured hierarchy allowing for an uneven distribution over power amongst themselves, nor the ability to actuate their will upon the world around them.
This isn't to say that enormous, profit-hungry companies will never tend to act like tsunamis, but I don't know that your comparison is generally valid.
- wpietri 13y agoEver watch The Wire? The whole point of it, at least in my eyes, is that often, the villain is the system. It is perfectly possible to see a company change every person in it and still have exactly the same behaviors, especially the pathological ones. I understand that from the employee's perspective, managers and execs seem to have near-infinite power. But from the perspective of any one of those people, they are vastly outnumbered; trying to change organizational culture is at best incredibly difficult. Waves tend to hold their shapes. Culture is a wave through individual humans. Or, perhaps more accurately, a standing wave through which humans pass.