Costanza comments on Predicting Organizational Behavior - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Costanza 22 September 2013 02:48:11AM 2 points [-]

You could check out Wikipedia on public choice theory and organizational theory .

For a more humorous approach, you could read The Peter Principle . You could also check out Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy .

Comment author: RomeoStevens 22 September 2013 09:48:09AM 1 point [-]

The Gervais Principle is also very good along those lines.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 25 September 2013 06:12:32AM 0 points [-]

"Very good" in the sense that it's entertaining or "seems" insightful, or in the sense that you have a ton of real-world experience with diverse organizations that it nicely summarizes?

(I was moderately well-acquainted with the sort of cynical view of organizations presented in The Gervais Principle, etc. when I started working at larger software companies and found that they were a lot more effective than it implied.)

Comment author: RomeoStevens 25 September 2013 08:27:12AM 0 points [-]

It improved the organization and integration of things I already believed related to the links Costanza posted. I do not have real world experience making predictions using its guidelines.