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Humans, Inc.: If human society were a firm, how is it doing?
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We have some massive firms in our human society, and we all know they could be more effective at their work. They say one thing and do another. No one actually has any good visibility over the firm’s entire operations. One department comes up with something that everyone else finds totally pointless. The wrong people are promoted and good people get shut down. Humans, Inc. is no different.
Let’s conduct a thought experiment on leadership and management.
We humans are all employees in the massive Earth-bound firm that is Humans, Inc.
The firm’s missions, values and objectives are unclear. Its identity and branding are confused. No one group of people in the firm is totally aware of what’s happening across the firm’s operations. Internal communications are a nightmare.
Humans, Inc. operates within its home environment, Earth, and in fact is entirely reliant on it. If Earth disappears, or if conditions change, Humans, Inc. is no longer able to operate.
The firm is interested in its perpetuity. The form of that perpetuity is uncertain, but at the very least, it’s survival. Presumably, the first necessary practical priority is the immediate survival of the firm and its employees.
