As I'm sure you know, if you look at a heat engine, they're astoundingly inefficient; it seems like a waste, until you understand there are fundamental reasons why this is true. I wonder if the same is true of large organizations?
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When I think about places/organizations such as airports and universities, I'm astounded at the number of people with highly specialized functions who need to work so precisely together to make it all work and not fall apart. And yet, yes, there is astounding inefficiency too.
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They're not opposites. Large orgs can be locally incompetent precisely because they have the subsidy that comes from economy of operational scale.
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It’s a fascinating dichotomy.
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@SwiftOnSecurity is missing is that there are at least a couple hundred patents in between those two car designs, and without those patents Elon would still be pitching all the other wild ideas.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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