The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution

https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/
CULTURE
Issue #388
17 Mar 2024
The Shirky Principle is the uncomfortable idea that institutions inevitably preserve the problems they were created solve. No institution voluntarily dissolves itself, once it is created it stays there forever until it is destroyed. Worth thinking about when we start initiatives in a company - maybe we should do more temporarily team assembly, rather than creating new departments? Good brainfood