“If we’re deep in the ordered regime,” he says, “then everybody is at a peak in fitness and we’re all mutually consistent—but these are lousy peaks.” Everybody is trapped in the foothills, so to speak, with no way to break loose and head for the crest of the range. In terms of human organizations, it’s as if the jobs are so subdivided that no one has any latitude; all they can do is learn how to perform the one job they’ve been hired for, and nothing else. Whatever the metaphor, however, it’s clear that if each individual in the various organizations is allowed a little more freedom to march
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