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wteng's avatar

This reminds me of what'd happened at the NASA data center where I'd worked for many years, when the Science Group, originally organized as largely independent "data support teams," was reorganized to largely top-down-managed, discipline-based, internal centers (e.g., one on precipitation). The creativity, productivity, camaraderie, and morale that had gushed became a trickle within an incredibly short period of time, especially camaraderie and morale (e.g., sharing became withholding). The same group of people, but now organized differently. Changes in subsequent years led to some improvements, but that gushing dynamic never came back.

One of the best lessons I learned there: structure determines behavior.

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Holly's avatar

I understand that specific tactics may become overfitted and have a short lifespan, but isn't repeatedly carrying out an action that has proven to be effective and attracts the attention of the media until it doesn't a needed win to keep the pressure on and proclaim we mean business?

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