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  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    I've been learning project management skills recently and am very embarrassed to say it's pretty interesting.

    The Toyota Management style, all that stuff, before I looked at it I thought "dude capitalism lmao what a waste of time" - but then when I learned what it was it's just group-coordination.

    How do we get large groups of people to perform complex collaborative tasks? This is a question every advanced society has to organise, regardless of whether surplus-value is siphoned off or not.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      I figure that human organization and behavior is separable from capitalism, as a discipline, which I guess you conclude with.

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Much of that management stuff especially kaizen and others are about things like

      1. Pushing down responsibilities to line workers for things like quality control and safety
      2. Iterative processes to allow for experimentation
    • blue_lives_murder [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Scientific management is for sure cool when taken out of its context.

      The problem is the context is management figuring how to squeeze more surplus value out of labor.

    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Precisely the wrong time to recommend a Twitter follow, but this dude posts a bunch about management theory, systems thinking, cybernetics and tech. He is also a communist. Genuinely one of my favorite and most informative follows on the hellsite.