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Find the Schemers - by Charles Yang - Rough Drafts

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“One must have chaos in one's self to give birth to a dancing star” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra “People, ideas, machines — in that order.” Colonel John Boyd The one is printed in some little red book and anyone can easily read it up. It also remains constant. A general is always superior to a colonel and a colonel to a captain. The other is not printed anywhere. Nor is it even a formally organized secret society with officers and rules which you would be told after you had been admitted. You are never formally and explicitly admitted by anyone. You discover gradually, in almost indefinable ways, that it exists and that you are outside it; and then later, perhaps, that you are inside it. C.S. Lewis, The Inner Ring …nothing makes an org chart obsolete faster than the unequal distribution of competence. Entire offices have fallen off the org chart due to this. It is difficult to quantify “inefficiency” from an org chart alone, without understanding the people behind the or

“One must have chaos in one's self to give birth to a dancing star” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra “People, ideas, machines — in that order.” Colonel John Boyd The one is printed in some little red book and anyone can easily read it up. It also remains constant. A general is always superior to a colonel and a colonel to a captain. The other is not printed anywhere. Nor is it even a formally organized secret society with officers and rules which you would be told after you had been admitted. You are never formally and explicitly admitted by anyone. You discover gradually, in…

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