It is not done to call “bullshit”: Difference between revisions

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Thus, organisations thrive and flourish despite, and not because of, their internal governance.
Thus, organisations thrive and flourish despite, and not because of, their internal governance.
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It is not the done thing to call bullshit in a professional setting.

Given, for all their pained protestations to the contrary, any commercial organisation is a self-perpetuating autocracy we should expect a great deal less licence given to untrammeled free speech in every day practice than is virtue-signaled by the boss in his daily lectures on the telescreen. People who survive for a time in an organsation are shaped and enculturatred by it. They do not so much learn not to call bullshit, but are self-selected for their disposition not to call bullshit. They, in turn, are part of the recruitment process — almost everyone is part of the recruitment process somehow — and they select people who are a “good cultural fit” — that is, disinclined to call bullshit.

Thus, not calling bullshit is not actively repressed in the organisation. People are not punished for calling bullshit: they just don’t. It is bred out of them.

Thus, organisations thrive and flourish despite, and not because of, their internal governance.

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