Management

Horseshit on a trail run is fitting and pleasant, but in the work place is painfully destructive.

Darwin observed: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” This profound observation is poorly understood and usually ignored by institutions and organizations.

There are limits in both music and medicine. Go beyond those limits, and disaster is inevitable.

"In an ideal world, your job as a manager would include setting goals and acquiring the resources to achieve them. But you don't live in an ideal world, largely because there are people like you in it."

- From Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook by Scott Adams

Tim Jackson has written a fascinating piece about the economic limits of productivity. Aside from the economic considerations, I increasingly believe that the philosophy underlying medical care is incompatible with the concept of productivity.

“And God created the organization and gave it dominion over man.“

(attributed to Peter Townsend)

“And God created the organization and gave it dominion over man.“

(attributed to Peter Townsend)

Top-down and centrally controlled leadership/management has predictable (negative) results as outlined in the graphic below the fold…

Moderation (or centrism in the political world) is best defined as a slavish devotion to the status quo.

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." 

 Clay Shirky