Another Case of Bureaucrats Missing the Forest!


	Another Case of Bureaucrats Missing the Forest!

CulturalEngineer

5-9-2009 8:00 AM

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Even simple decisions in complex systems often end up going wrong because at decision points along the way no one is looking at the forest but only at the tree in front of him.

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