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By the fact of its operation, a firm ''self-generates''. | By the fact of its operation, a firm ''self-generates''. | ||
Besides widgets, [[Externality|externalities]] and its stock-in-trade, a firm self-generates is ''its | Besides widgets, [[Externality|externalities]], fiefdoms and its stock-in-trade, another thing a firm self-generates is ''its own leaders''. In an odd way, the organisation ''makes'' its own personnel: it selects, fashions and moulds them; it weeds out those who are misaligned, promotes those who are fittest and, where home-growns are not yet match-fit, buys in external candidates who are. | ||
Only the most successful of these personnel — the most paradigmatically ''of'' the organisation; who most perfectly resemble its essence — ever make it to the executive suite.<ref>Cry bitter tears, my friends: almost certainly, you are not so destined. The sooner you realise this, the easier becomes your burden.</ref> The selection process by which one ascends that greasy pole is relentless, unending and brutal. It fashions people, the way a river fashions stone.<ref>Now you may notice ''another'' [[paradox]] here: however singly directed from on high it seems, the very illusion of command-and-control ''[[emergence|emerges]] from the subconscious machinations of the beast''.</ref> | Only the most successful of these personnel — the most paradigmatically ''of'' the organisation; who most perfectly resemble its essence — ever make it to the executive suite.<ref>Cry bitter tears, my friends: almost certainly, you are not so destined. The sooner you realise this, the easier becomes your burden.</ref> The selection process by which one ascends that greasy pole is relentless, unending and brutal. It fashions people, the way a river fashions stone.<ref>Now you may notice ''another'' [[paradox]] here: however singly directed from on high it seems, the very illusion of command-and-control ''[[emergence|emerges]] from the subconscious machinations of the beast''.</ref> | ||