Table of Contents Toggle Reputation and Opportunism Human ethology. People and organization What to do? Reputation and opportunism American economist Mancur Olson, in his work “The Logic of Collective Action,” provided a coherent argument that in large groups, the rational behavior of an individual optimizing their costs would be to Continue Reading
Management
Articles on Management
Dilution of responsibility
Imagine a nuclear power plant. There’s a need to determine how to distribute the fuel load in the reactor. Where to place which fuel with what enrichment, where to transfer partially burned assemblies, where to put fresh ones, and so on. There is a standard regulation that outlines the principles Continue Reading
How to properly resign
In a conversation with invisible readers about family and marriage, I mentioned that the stamp in a passport is not a form of a marriage contract, but rather a divorce agreement. The same goes for employment. Moreover, when an employee is hired, they are like a “bride,” while the employer Continue Reading
Business processes and radish
A long time ago, when I was in school, we were sent to gather radishes at a state farm near Boryspil. It was like a “labor camp.” Practically the same as a pioneer camp, but with the added entertainment of four hours of free labor in the fresh air. We Continue Reading
The Power of Meetings
Imagine a nuclear power plant. You need to determine how to distribute the fuel load in the reactor. Where to place which fuel with what enrichment, where to transfer partially burned assemblies, where to position fresh ones, and so on. There is a standard regulation that outlines the principles for Continue Reading
Ethics Commission
Do you know why three hundred years ago one scientist could manage to discover a dozen laws of physics and simultaneously push mathematics forward by centuries? In fact, even at the beginning of the 20th century, it was quite possible to create a new theory almost single-handedly. Because back then, Continue Reading
You are already dead.
And I saw the dead, both small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Rev. 20:12 If Continue Reading
Well-formulated result
The HSR technique is designed to: a) Exclude absolutely all undesirable scenarios for achieving your goal. What kind of undesirable scenarios are we talking about? For example, when you requested to double your income, but you achieved it through inflation. b) Achieve the goal as accurately, quickly, and easily as Continue Reading