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And these reporting lines are the most sclerotic, rusty and ''resented'' communication channels in the organisation. They are the “keep off the grass” signs; vain attempts to coerce inferior modes of communication over better ones, for if they really were the best lines of communication, you wouldn’t ''need'' to formalise them. They would just ''happen''.  
And these reporting lines are the most sclerotic, rusty and ''resented'' communication channels in the organisation. They are the “keep off the grass” signs; vain attempts to coerce inferior modes of communication over better ones, for if they really were the best lines of communication, you wouldn’t ''need'' to formalise them. They would just ''happen''.  


Since they don’t, management exhorts [[line manager]]s to meet weekly with their directs and obliges to them to populate standing agendas to furnish [[management information and statistics]].  
Since they don’t, management exhorts [[line manager]]s to [[one-to-one|meet weekly]] with their directs and populate standing agendas to furnish [[management information and statistics]] fit for injection into [[opco]] [[Microsoft PowerPoint|decks]] and [[RAG status|RAG dashboards]] of handsome looking, but — given the circumstances of its generation — basically useless data.  


Why? ''Because they wouldn’t do it otherwise, and no-one would miss it''.  
It is all very [[performative]]. ''Because they wouldn’t do it otherwise, and no-one would miss it''.  


{{data as a self-fulfilling prophecy}}
{{data as a self-fulfilling prophecy}}