“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.” FeelsWritingYearsLongWhiteWalksRoomsPartyTeamBuildingExerciseRegardWineDrinkingFollowingCornersCorporationsBottlesDesksEmbarrassmentTeam BuildingShoutingLong WalksChristmas PartyWhite Wine Author:Will Self
“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.” LongSelfLastsNamesLinesResultsKnowledgeLearningLimitsDiversityOrganizationManagementResponseBottomProductivityEvolveCorporationsConsistentDucksEngineeringEfficiencyVariationRefinedDisruptivePayoffOperating SystemsStreamlining Author:Richard Pascale
“It is in the long run that the corporation lives.” LongRunningCorporationsLong Runs Book:The affluent society Source: The affluent society