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by apantel
822 days ago
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I don’t think you can 100% trust an organization. An organization is not like a person who has a true continuity of identity and personhood. An organization is just the sum of whoever its people are. As people come and go, an organization changes. If enough people change, or have changes of heart, the organization can change completely to one you don’t recognize. Edit: for example, Google: “don’t be evil” lasted as long as Google was run by people who cared about the technology more than profits. It used to be a search engine run by such types. Now it’s an ad engine and competition-extinguisher run by completely different types of people. |
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But you have to trust. Because lifespan of human is limited (just about 40 years at most), so you cannot consider to make long term foundation based on any human. And unfortunately none human-free technology at the moment could even get close to human or human based bureaucracy as management force.
And near only known example of private organization in big tech is Dell (Ford Motor company was build as organization by Ford himself, so it was bureaucracy even when Henry Ford was at head). All others are owned at least by some family (like Walmart), and most others are just open Joint-Stock Companies, good if have large share in one human hands (or one family, like Porsche), but in many cases owned by other JSC or by government (or large municipality, like was Volkswagen) and by widely distributed list of tiny shareholders.
I'm agree, organizations are harder to understand from common sense view, but from mathematics view they are more predictable than humans.
And I'm agree, it is possible to intentionally make so much HR chaos that organization will change constantly looking unpredictable way. But in real life, even very non-experienced manager, very fast see how to make organization predictable.
For about your example, Google is very predictable for its owners and its management, even when we don't like what it become.