Oddbean new post about login | logout GM! Organisations never fix the problem. Here's why: Organization gets created to fix a problem -> Organization hires staff -> staff desires either A) job stability -> problem is kept alive B) career advancement -> problem is made worse Fixing the problem means synchronized economic suicide for everyone in the organization.
Yes, Taleb had some good writing about it. One of the worst examples is when a facility created to provide care, turns into one of the most devoid of empathy places in existence: a hospital Possible solution: dissolve the org. create them as temporary entities, cut funding. Fo the layered system to be healthy, lower layers need to be sacrificed and replaced. Like cells in our body undergo death and creation to prevent the higher-level organism to live healthy.
So true!