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by rsynnott 970 days ago
An extremely common organisational leadership failure mode is “[role/thing] is useless, get rid of it… Ooops, we actually needed that. Bring it back, but call it something else so that we don’t have to admit our mistake.”

The author has, apparently, decided to skip the intermediate step and just rename things for no reason.

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Also, bring it back but don’t call it that and maybe we can get by paying someone less to do the same work.