Sometimes theoretical best practices are illuminating, not in an economics sense of "you idiots can't possibly think this makes sense, can you?", but in the realization that nobody but nobody in the field concerned ever actually does the thing.
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Also, and this one I found more surprising, seems to be true for a fair bit of business studies.
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It's not so much that the field doesn't have any functional ideas as that the functional ideas are often forsworn in favor of utterly nonsensical dogma.
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Also, did not realize how much of this stuff is straight-up occultism or cult indoctrination.
Reading a passage on *rites and ceremonies* in business right now...
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Fascinating in the sense that some of the most effective methods of creating internal social cohesion in an organization are also the shortest paths to total social dysfunction.