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JA WestenbergThe average knowledge worker maintains accounts across system after system, switching between applications hundreds of times per day. And they produce, in aggregate, a staggering amount of coordinated and collaborative activity that never actually becomes anything resembling ~output.
Steffen Voß@Daojoan I agree that individual responsibility is important. But for large-scale projects, coordination is essential. Coordination means communicating about the task at hand. These tools can streamline that communication if we agree that you can simply assign a task to me without having to call a meeting. You can use these tools effectively if you always keep in mind what the other person needs to continue working as smoothly as possible.
@Daojoan BTW: What was called “mission-based tactics” in the Wehrmacht is now known as leadership through delegation: The boss sets only the goal, while the employee is given the responsibility to achieve it. Yet this model became increasingly regimented. Ultimately, it came under criticism because employees had no freedom to make decisions, but only the “freedom” to follow their superiors’ goals. The freedom to obey. By then, the model comprised 350 organizational rules. https://kaffeeringe.de/2024/02/26/gehorsam-macht-frei/
@Daojoan Ultimately, capitalist enterprises as totalitarian dictatorships are essentially foreign elements in democratic societies. But perhaps that also explains why corporations have no problem with the erosion of democracy. https://kaffeeringe.de/2021/05/04/muessen-unternehmen-wie-diktaturen-sein/
