Post by flimp (INTJ) on Jan 6, 2019 4:47:08 GMT
New research topic: How can we grow our organization and prevent it from deteriorating?
The reason why we should pursue this topic of research is because we need to figure out how to improve the structure of the system before we continue to use it. Otherwise we will experience systemic failure.
How do we go about this new research topic?
1) develop hypotheses as to why our organization grows and deteriorates.
2) Predict the results of each hypothesis.
3) Implement a change.
4) See if there is an improvement
5) If the hypothesis is correct then we should continue to implement the idea.
Example:
Here are some lines of thought leading to a hypothesis
The question is: How can we grow our organization and prevent it from deteriorating?
I think that power either grows or shrinks and never stays constant and that the same principle can be applied to organizations because organizations are the expansion of an authority’s power. Therefore, organizations either grow or shrink and never stay constant. You can also look at the growth and decay of organizations though mathematics.
Let’s say that an organization produces 10 expansive power and experiences 18 reductive power. Since reductive power subtracts from expansive power the organization is experiencing a reduction in power. In order to achieve growth again the organization needs to experience more expansive power than it does reductive power.
Putting everything together:
1) Power either grows or shrinks and never stays constant
2) Organizations are the expansion of an authority’s power and so organizations either grow or shrink but never stay constant.
3) In order for organizations to grow, the sum of expansive power, (positive integers) and reductive power (negative integers) need to sum to n > 0 where n is the total power.
However, we have not defined what power is and where it comes from. Neither have we proved the assumption that power cannot stay constant or that an organization is the expansion of an authority’s power.
To define power, we need to understand its source and the medium through which it spreads. Now power could be a lion killing a sheep but obviously we would not hold the lion morally accountable. Power could also be exercised through chickens pecking at each other to form a dominance hierarchy but we would not hold the chickens morally responsible for their actions. So, in the sense that power is morally pressing to us as humans is in relation through linguistic frameworks. Like you cannot have morality without a language or a linguistic framework to talk about it. And language makes no sense unless you have someone to talk with and language makes no sense unless someone has taught it to you, and it makes no sense unless a group of people can collectively speak the same language.
So how does morality arise out of a linguistic framework? The only way in which morality exists is when someone utters a moral rule and someone else decides to listen to them. And what makes a moral discourse permeate throughout society and exist cohesively over a period of time is when a set of moral instructions are repeatedly commanded and obeyed over and over again in a kind of organized institutionalized manner.
Putting everything together
• Human power is mediated through language rather than animal pecking orders.
• Power is the ability to modulate a linguistic framework.
• People who utter moral rules and are listened to have power.
• If a bunch of people listen to and obey a person who utters moral rules then people form an organization.
We now know that power is the ability to modulate a linguistic framework. We know that the source of power comes from the sovereign, the person who utters moral rules and is listened to. We understand that power moves through language using linguistic frameworks. Now we need to figure out why power cannot stay constant.
Power cannot stay constant because linguistic frameworks are not constant. If they could be constant then self-consciousness would stop because
If you are not self-aware
Then you don’t have self-control
If you don’t have self-control
Then you have no willpower.
If you have no willpower
Then you don’t have the ability to do the harder thing
If you don’t have the will to do the harder thing
Then you will not be able to cooperate with other people in a tribe
If you cannot cooperate with other people in a tribe
Then you will not learn a language
So, with all of this stuff said my hypothesis is that an organization will not survive without a strong sovereign because organizations are the expansion of the sovereign’s power which is derived from the sovereign’s ability to create morality through language.
The reason why we should pursue this topic of research is because we need to figure out how to improve the structure of the system before we continue to use it. Otherwise we will experience systemic failure.
How do we go about this new research topic?
1) develop hypotheses as to why our organization grows and deteriorates.
2) Predict the results of each hypothesis.
3) Implement a change.
4) See if there is an improvement
5) If the hypothesis is correct then we should continue to implement the idea.
Example:
Here are some lines of thought leading to a hypothesis
The question is: How can we grow our organization and prevent it from deteriorating?
I think that power either grows or shrinks and never stays constant and that the same principle can be applied to organizations because organizations are the expansion of an authority’s power. Therefore, organizations either grow or shrink and never stay constant. You can also look at the growth and decay of organizations though mathematics.
Let’s say that an organization produces 10 expansive power and experiences 18 reductive power. Since reductive power subtracts from expansive power the organization is experiencing a reduction in power. In order to achieve growth again the organization needs to experience more expansive power than it does reductive power.
Putting everything together:
1) Power either grows or shrinks and never stays constant
2) Organizations are the expansion of an authority’s power and so organizations either grow or shrink but never stay constant.
3) In order for organizations to grow, the sum of expansive power, (positive integers) and reductive power (negative integers) need to sum to n > 0 where n is the total power.
However, we have not defined what power is and where it comes from. Neither have we proved the assumption that power cannot stay constant or that an organization is the expansion of an authority’s power.
To define power, we need to understand its source and the medium through which it spreads. Now power could be a lion killing a sheep but obviously we would not hold the lion morally accountable. Power could also be exercised through chickens pecking at each other to form a dominance hierarchy but we would not hold the chickens morally responsible for their actions. So, in the sense that power is morally pressing to us as humans is in relation through linguistic frameworks. Like you cannot have morality without a language or a linguistic framework to talk about it. And language makes no sense unless you have someone to talk with and language makes no sense unless someone has taught it to you, and it makes no sense unless a group of people can collectively speak the same language.
So how does morality arise out of a linguistic framework? The only way in which morality exists is when someone utters a moral rule and someone else decides to listen to them. And what makes a moral discourse permeate throughout society and exist cohesively over a period of time is when a set of moral instructions are repeatedly commanded and obeyed over and over again in a kind of organized institutionalized manner.
Putting everything together
• Human power is mediated through language rather than animal pecking orders.
• Power is the ability to modulate a linguistic framework.
• People who utter moral rules and are listened to have power.
• If a bunch of people listen to and obey a person who utters moral rules then people form an organization.
We now know that power is the ability to modulate a linguistic framework. We know that the source of power comes from the sovereign, the person who utters moral rules and is listened to. We understand that power moves through language using linguistic frameworks. Now we need to figure out why power cannot stay constant.
Power cannot stay constant because linguistic frameworks are not constant. If they could be constant then self-consciousness would stop because
If you are not self-aware
Then you don’t have self-control
If you don’t have self-control
Then you have no willpower.
If you have no willpower
Then you don’t have the ability to do the harder thing
If you don’t have the will to do the harder thing
Then you will not be able to cooperate with other people in a tribe
If you cannot cooperate with other people in a tribe
Then you will not learn a language
So, with all of this stuff said my hypothesis is that an organization will not survive without a strong sovereign because organizations are the expansion of the sovereign’s power which is derived from the sovereign’s ability to create morality through language.