Siameses twins - Les jumeaux siamois


Thoughts in Darrick Wood by Trevor Morgan 19 May 2020 (traduction française ci-dessous)

 I walk through the woods and watch the birds and other forms of life organise themselves to achieve success as a species. Their success or failure increasingly relies upon humanity which organises its activities with technical skill, but which often lacks wise and rational application.

An astute and observant business manager would agree that authority and responsibility are Siamese twins which cannot be separated. If you try to separate them the organism withers and dies.

Too often the masters of political and business organisations assume all the authority and delegate all the responsibility to those who have to implement the decisions. Those who assume absolute authority, make more than their fair share of bad decisions otherwise they would not assume absolute authority in the first place. The result is the masters appoint yes-men who are prepared to put up with this dire problem and who just implement the bad decisions without question. The result is chaotic management and failure.

Birds and mammals do not suffer from this problem, but they do have to suffer from the poor decisions of the authoritarian humans and their underlings, and many species will go extinct as a result. This could include us.



Pensées dans Darrick Wood par Trevor Morgan 19 mai 2020


Je marche dans les bois et regarde les oiseaux et autres formes de vie s'organiser pour réussir en tant qu'espèce. Leur succès ou leur échec dépend de plus en plus de l'humanité qui organise ses activités avec compétence technique, mais qui manque souvent d'application sage et rationnelle.

Un chef d'entreprise astucieux et attentif conviendrait que l'autorité et la responsabilité sont des jumeaux siamois qui ne peuvent pas être séparés. Si vous essayez de les séparer, l'organisme se dessèche et meurt.

Trop souvent, les maîtres des organisations politiques et commerciales assument toute l'autorité et délèguent toute la responsabilité à ceux qui doivent mettre en œuvre les décisions. Ceux qui assument une autorité absolue, prennent plus que leur juste part de mauvaises décisions, sinon ils ne prendraient pas l'autorité absolue en premier lieu. Le résultat est que les maîtres nomment des bénis-oui-oui qui sont prêts à faire face à ce grave problème et qui mettent en œuvre les mauvaises décisions sans aucun doute. Le résultat est une gestion chaotique et un échec.


Les oiseaux et les mammifères ne souffrent pas de ce problème, mais ils doivent souffrir des mauvaises décisions des humains autoritaires et de leurs subalternes, et de nombreuses espèces disparaîtront en conséquence. Cela pourrait nous inclure.





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