mtc, you could make a few volumes of Dilbert your required reading, to inform your faith in the ‘sane corporation’. In fact, in such high powered company, I’m surprised to see non-qualified discussion of the intentionality of any organisation. Organisations don’t have intentionality, individuals do (perhaps… if we don’t let the Evolutionary Psychology crowd take it away from us..). As all Eliezer’s anecdotes illustrate, these get lost in the wash of large numbers and multiple levels, networks, and gridlocks, so we are left with the dross of the latest organisational mantra which everyone gives lip service to and no-one believes. It is trivial to observe that the dominant intentionalities will be those of the most powerful individuals, but these also are destined to be diluted and lost.
However, my personal believe is that inadequate individuation (accepting cultural norms of need and intentionality) is a far bigger problem than such intentionality as we have getting lost. Let’s first work out who we are and what we have to say before worrying about our voice getting lost.
mtc, you could make a few volumes of Dilbert your required reading, to inform your faith in the ‘sane corporation’. In fact, in such high powered company, I’m surprised to see non-qualified discussion of the intentionality of any organisation. Organisations don’t have intentionality, individuals do (perhaps… if we don’t let the Evolutionary Psychology crowd take it away from us..). As all Eliezer’s anecdotes illustrate, these get lost in the wash of large numbers and multiple levels, networks, and gridlocks, so we are left with the dross of the latest organisational mantra which everyone gives lip service to and no-one believes. It is trivial to observe that the dominant intentionalities will be those of the most powerful individuals, but these also are destined to be diluted and lost. However, my personal believe is that inadequate individuation (accepting cultural norms of need and intentionality) is a far bigger problem than such intentionality as we have getting lost. Let’s first work out who we are and what we have to say before worrying about our voice getting lost.