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A “natural language” read/write process — human construal — is, by contrast and by necessity, a collaboration: an open, dynamic, incomplete, insoluble system. It is undetermined; its rules, boundaries and participants change according to agencies beyond the control of any participant. A speech act can be (from the speaker’s perspective) be misconstrued, ignored, disputed or reinterpreted. It is complex. | A “natural language” read/write process — human construal — is, by contrast and by necessity, a collaboration: an open, dynamic, incomplete, insoluble system. It is undetermined; its rules, boundaries and participants change according to agencies beyond the control of any participant. A speech act can be (from the speaker’s perspective) be misconstrued, ignored, disputed or reinterpreted. It is complex. | ||
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The larger an organisation is, the more that good governance demands it be run like a turing machine. A sole trader can make whatever decisions she likes. An employer of five can comfortably delegate wide discretion to her staff, as she has good view of what they are doing. A firm of five thousand, this is clearly less so. | The larger an organisation is, the more that good governance demands it be run like a turing machine. A sole trader can make whatever decisions she likes. An employer of five can comfortably delegate wide discretion to her staff, as she has good view of what they are doing. A firm of five thousand, this is clearly less so. |