Limits and Kafka to understand our structures
August 13th 2009 19:53
In the last century we had to get used to something new to humanity, the "kafkaiene" structures: organisations that get to big and completely discoordinated that we are completely out of any reality and reasoning when dealing with it (please read the Proces, the best book written in the XXth century).
Now that we're used to them, I'd like to give an approach to it for us to avoid crucifing all people that work for a given structure (company, state, any kind of organisation). Structures that get too big are not human any more, and no one inside them can be considered the fault of their errors. I mean, if someone worked for the US government during the Bush era, its not thier fault if the US had such a terrible diplomacy.
This is like math's limits: no value inside the function have the exact limit of it, but the result is the combination of the infinite suite of each X in the function. The same goes for Bush: even if he was maybe 90% responsible of how bad US handled their external politics, he's not the 100%, and noone is. The complete fault can only be given to the structure.
You see so that these strucutures are over human, and no one can be taken as responsible, the responsability has to be shared and weighted between the responsabilities of each one on it.
So when you say the HR of your company sucks, it doesn't mean that all the girls that work there are stupid, and they should not consider the offense to the HR departement as an offense to them...
cheers.
Now that we're used to them, I'd like to give an approach to it for us to avoid crucifing all people that work for a given structure (company, state, any kind of organisation). Structures that get too big are not human any more, and no one inside them can be considered the fault of their errors. I mean, if someone worked for the US government during the Bush era, its not thier fault if the US had such a terrible diplomacy.
This is like math's limits: no value inside the function have the exact limit of it, but the result is the combination of the infinite suite of each X in the function. The same goes for Bush: even if he was maybe 90% responsible of how bad US handled their external politics, he's not the 100%, and noone is. The complete fault can only be given to the structure.
You see so that these strucutures are over human, and no one can be taken as responsible, the responsability has to be shared and weighted between the responsabilities of each one on it.
So when you say the HR of your company sucks, it doesn't mean that all the girls that work there are stupid, and they should not consider the offense to the HR departement as an offense to them...
cheers.
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