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Gervais Principle questioned: MacLeod’s hierarchy, the Technocrat, and VC...
The MacLeod Model of organizational sociology posits that workplaces tend toward a state in which there are three levels: Losers, who recognize that low-level employment is a losing deal, and therefore...
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Gervais / MacLeod 4: a world without Losers?
This is a continuation of last week’s analysis of various work cultures and the patterns of degeneracy. I’ve analyzed hierarchies that form in organizational cultures and the relationship between...
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Gervais / MacLeod 5: Interfaces, meritocracy, the effort thermocline, and a...
Today, I continue my analysis of the MacLeod hierarchy and the Gervais Principle. (See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) I’m going to analyze the interfaces between the three MacLeod tiers in order to...
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Gervais / MacLeod 21: Why Does Work Suck?
This is a penultimate “breather” post, insofar as it doesn’t present much new material, but summarizes much of what’s in the previous 20 essays. It’s now time to tie everything together and Solve It....
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Technology’s Loser Problem
I’m angry. The full back story isn’t worth getting into, but there was a company where I applied for a job in the spring of 2013: to build a company’s machine learning infrastructure from scratch. It...
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