There are some interesting things in this talk.
I got a fair bit out of being aware of Taylorism (which is discussed early on) at an early stage.
While Im not a fan of approaches too easily used to reduce people into economic assets, I can still appreciate it as a means of improving surplus; minimize inhibitions; and improve sustainability.
In any case, I can reconcile the work within the Liberal canon and impose enough carnets and constraints to reduce moral hazards and improve power distances (ie reduce them and the asymmetries that further abuses and harms).
This diagram from Xin Yao is an example of her own nuance:
Her thoughts on the need for pluralistic inputs make her more nuanced than managerial knuckle draggers.
I tend to go further back for handpicking perspectives in part as (like coding), a lot of the more powerful ideas were already in place but forgotten in the knotty explanations and decaying subtleties.
While, I have in the past referenced Adam Smith’s analogy of the Butcher, Brewer, and Baker regarding the advantages possible from overlapping self interest, this quote in many respects more pertinent:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices
In many respects pluralism is often overlooked, one could in many respects consider it as the ‘furry tongue’ in holistic systems–its a signal that that other aspects of the environment is out of kilter.
When it comes to the above quote, distinctions and competing interests in a social environment are needed to provide fuller and more correct input but additionally to police against collusion and centralization against the commons.
When it comes to collaboration and community cohesion, I recall Brian Paddick’s recollection of his experiences as a police officer in Brixton.
In recognising the transactional importance within frontline policing, he gave an example of his inability to enter an estate .
One one occasion, he chased some youths because of cannabis but this reason was need enough reason for the block resident he was appealing to access.
When facing a similar dance another time with the same individual regarding (more serious ) criminality hiding in the block he was permitted through.
This and other behaviours had an enobling effect to encourage him to orientate to positioning his responsibilities to consensus based policing in his role as Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Policy (historically one of the most abusive and corrupt of UK enforcement agencies).
… Its such a pity the asymmetric games played against him to upend his leadership,
he was too isolated from the power of tabloid innuendo and libel to continue in his role.
We would do well to understand that true success is built upon working across aisles (for wider civic goals) and permitting people to do stressful work without intimidation (so that human centric governance is able to reach its natural scale).