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Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by MuffinFlavored on Sunday February 19, 2023 @08:12PM (#34863782)
why can’t an enterprise be more efficient if profit is their motive?
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Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by andrekandre on Monday February 20, 2023 @08:14AM (#34867771)
probably because in many enterprises people are incentivized to optimize for personal profit (pay grade, promotion, increasing team size, launching new (often unnecessary) features/products etc) which leads to waste and bureaucracies... iow optimizing in the small which leads to the opposite in the large.
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