Social darwinism is a terrible thing, but activity darwinism around projects is a beautiful thing. So many things improve if you're willing to be darwinian about culling weak projects. The trick is killing weak projects without destroying people or knowledge in the process.
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People part addressable with good leadership and culture that understands failure.
Knowledge part is harder in large companies--bound up in people's heads who then scatter to the wind when projects die.
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That actually sounds more like intelligent design around projects, if you think about it.
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as taleb points out, irregardless of what you do you'll have a selection effect at play cuz you exist in an open system
autophagy isn't a bad thing, but the question is what gets eaten and recycled
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