CDR Salamander, Call Your Office
Barry’s found an absolutely brilliant piece of work here. It sure sounds like my own organization at times.
On the other hand that might be the rule of organizations that says (where is this from?) that organizations often tend to act as if their worst enemies are running it…
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June 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
That’s Conquest’s Second Law (named after Robert Conquest): The behavior of an organization can best be predicted by assuming it to be controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Thanks for the shout-out.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
P.S. All three of Conquest’s laws are good ones, even if you don’t necessarily agree:
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
That has been bugging me for entirely too long. Thanks for reminding me!
June 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Almost too good to be true … but … sigh ….