https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development/
By Venkatesh Rao
In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the archetypes that inhabit organizations (Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless), what they do (the Gervais Principle) and how (the four languages). In this part, we’ll use a somewhat unorthodox take on the idea of arrested development to explain why the three groups behave as they do, and use that to predict the outcomes of individual interpersonal interactions… Read more…