The Management Secrets of the Brain
M. Mitchell Waldrop,
Business 2.0,
Oct 17, 2002
Interesting article the compares the function of the brain with organizational management. It simplifies and skips over details at both ends, but the principle is essentially sound. Both must "assess new information, resolve internal conflicts, and decide how to act." What is significant is the article's explicit endorsement of a distributed organization - "The best way to control your subordinates is to just point them in the right direction" - and the role of experience and passion in brain (and organizational) functioning. I wish the article had gone deeper, explaining how (via neural networks and parallel processing) this all happens. No matter. The article outlines a pattern that can be replicated not just in brains and organizations but also in any semantical system.
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