“The most efficient organization in the world is not any group of people but a single person…..Surely, the individual person is the best organization in the world. Moreover, an individual who owns his own material, has put up the investment for an undertaking. And who stand to gain whatever profits arise from the enterprise, must have the greatest incentive to do the job well. All organizations of people are crude and highly imperfect compared with an individual person.” Clarence Carson: historian who wrote for FEE
I really like that framing. If highlights how what we usually think of as inefficiencies are things that hinder the group from acting like one perfectly aligned entity.
“The most efficient organization in the world is not any group of people but a single person…..Surely, the individual person is the best organization in the world. Moreover, an individual who owns his own material, has put up the investment for an undertaking. And who stand to gain whatever profits arise from the enterprise, must have the greatest incentive to do the job well. All organizations of people are crude and highly imperfect compared with an individual person.” Clarence Carson: historian who wrote for FEE
I really like that framing. If highlights how what we usually think of as inefficiencies are things that hinder the group from acting like one perfectly aligned entity.
The use of Yellowstone gifs was so apt.