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{{a|work|[[File:Org Chart.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{d|Org chart|/ɔːg ʧɑːt/|n|}}
{{a|work|[[File:Org Chart.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{quote|“What you see is all there is.”
:— {{author|Daniel Kahneman}}}}
{{quote|“Der Teufel mag im Detail stecken, aber Gott steckt in den Lücken.”<ref>''The Devil may be in the detail, but God is in the gaps''.</ref>
:—{{Buchstein}}, ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]''}}{{d|Org chart|/ɔːg ʧɑːt/|n|}}


A glib schematic that tells you everything you don’t need to know about an organisation, but which the organisation treats as its most utmost secret.
A glib schematic that tells you everything you don’t need to know about an organisation, but which the organisation treats as its most utmost secret.
===Form, not substance===
===Form, not substance===
{{quote|“What you see is all there is.”
:— {{author|Daniel Kahneman}}}}
{{quote|“Der Teufel mag im Detail stecken, aber Gott steckt in den Lücken.”<ref>''The Devil may be in the detail, but God is in the gaps''.</ref>
:—{{Buchstein}}, ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]''}}


Because we can see [[form]] easily, we imbue it with meaning. We assume the fixed connections we draw between the vertices of our institutions ''matter'': that they ''are'' “structural”, because we ''say'' they are.  
Because we can see [[form]] easily, we imbue it with meaning. We assume the fixed connections we draw between the vertices of our institutions ''matter'': that they ''are'' “structural”, because we ''say'' they are.