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 Just because your business holds the unchaperoned matching of supply to demand as an article of faith, it doesn't follow that its organisational structure will.
-Indeed, the bigger it is, the more likely it will resemble a gerrymandered fiefdom of rotten boroughs. Evidence that “meritocracy, red in tooth and claw” might be more mouth than trouser comes in the form of the [[survivor]]. Every department, in every large organisation, has at least one. Even investment banks. Even [[Goldman Sachs]].
+Indeed, the bigger it is, the more likely it will resemble a gerrymandered fiefdom of rotten boroughs. Evidence that “meritocracy, red in tooth and claw” might be more mouth than trouser comes in the form of the [[survivor]]. Every department, in every large organisation, has at least one. Even investment banks. Even [[Goldman]].
 The Survivor is an individual of no discernible value who flourishes through thick and thin, while better men and women perish, are pushed aside, or throw in the towel. The Survivor’s attributes number among them laziness, evasiveness, defensiveness, a penchant for confusion and a taste for office politics. The surviver is often idle but rarely stupid and, even when he is, will still have an autistic ability to intimidate, befuddle or bamboozle his managers.