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Re:Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse by uaaa on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:35AM (#14023552)
Management and other myths

1. Complex systems tend to produce complex responses (not solutions) to problems.

2. Great advances are not produced by systems designed to produce great advances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

Re:Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse by dredmorbius on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:51AM (#14030697)
Also, thank you so very much for Systemantics. I've run across it before, but very much needed to run across it here and now.
Re:Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse by dredmorbius on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:35AM (#14029764)
"The chief cause of problems is solutions."

-- Sevaried's Law