antlerboy,
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Can anyone help me find the article I once found through Twitter which suggested that finding out how their organisation actually worked (through IIRC something as simple as process improvement) was like arcane knowledge which often derailed careers and led to people leaving their orgs?

antlerboy,
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found - thanks to @Meaningness
Ruthanne Huising, "Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates," 2019

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/Moving-off-the-Map%3A-How-Knowledge-of-Organizational-Huising/409921a252db8f9610cb22ff24acd6fc8e153e64

(and hosted by Gwern)

engagedpractx,
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@antlerboy @Meaningness super interested to read this!

antlerboy,
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@engagedpractx @antlerboy @Meaningness 'when you know, you know'...

engagedpractx,
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@antlerboy makes me think of the anthropology on 'taboo' topics — enormously salient knowledge that is nonetheless quite dangerous to possess

antlerboy,
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@engagedpractx to have the profane and mundane we have to have the sacred, to have a theory we have to have a non-theoretical basis (Tarski's undefinability theorem etc), to have an organisation - or a 'person' - we have to have... an undiscussable...

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