"Robert Redelmeier" <redelm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Having spent considerable time inside a large multinational,
> my experience is that conflicting needs/info are resolved by
> internal champions. An individual/dept takes a position,
> often to their (budget, personnel) benefit, sometimes
> only for prestige. Then pushes it through the heirarchy.
> Rarely is there direct conflicting opposition but frequently
> there are competing claims of higher priorities.
A gem amongst the... other stuff!
I read an article about ants, and how they 'coordinate' to get all that
amazing work done. Turns out, they don't really. They just randomly do
stuff, with some following others and some not. At some point the
pheromone
trail of one group becomes dominant (when a majority randomly follow), and
that becomes the task/trail that most of the colony follow. There is no
'efficiency' about it (at least, what we typically think of as
efficiency).
Organizations, oddly enough, often seem to operate similarly - which is
essentially what you have described above. It's quite fascinating, in my
opinion.
Regards,
Dean
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