Church of Jeff
TAI@jeffowski I wish I could present a more tame analogy, but sorry .; it fails me. Imagine an MMA bout or boxing match with NO break between rounds. What would that look like and would people want to see it? The breaks between rounds aren't for the sake of the participants, strictly selfish motives. Performance declines rapidly beyond a certain threshold. It would be a sloppy mess. From a strictly selfish position, employers are idiots
AlakestPOSIWID
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
Authorities only want efficiency and effectiveness when it suits their own, arbitrary objectives.
They *actively* cultivate inefficiency and ineffectiveness among everyone else to insulate themselves against surprises.