In my experience groups dedicated to specific time-bounded goals have been meritocratic, focused and generally pleasant experiences. Long term orgs eventually become stagnant with rusted on individuals who start putting their own interests before the organizations. This is something I have observed even in nonpolitical orgs with low budgets and power only over pretty trivial things. So to your question, yes.
Yeah and where on the timeline does revolution sit, or is that supposed to be spontaneous? If you don't have quarterly goals then there's no point in organizing apparently because corruption could happen some day.
Revolution like any greater task must be broken down into smaller specific tasks with constant reassessment as to what has worked and what needs to change. I don't think you disagree with this. However when those tasks have ambiguous timelines or completion metrics then the incentives of those assigned to the task drift from doing the task towards maintaining or improving their position. If you haven't witnessed this in your workplace or elsewhere then you are very lucky. Then when you add the real power and privilege that rising in the ranks of a state provide then you will see misalignment of interests that is far beyond what anyone in a temporary workgroup would face as well as selecting for those who want the power rather than those who want to see the job done.
In my experience groups dedicated to specific time-bounded goals have been meritocratic, focused and generally pleasant experiences. Long term orgs eventually become stagnant with rusted on individuals who start putting their own interests before the organizations. This is something I have observed even in nonpolitical orgs with low budgets and power only over pretty trivial things. So to your question, yes.
Yeah that's a shit load of qualifiers
It's exactly two qualifiers; What and When.
Yeah and where on the timeline does revolution sit, or is that supposed to be spontaneous? If you don't have quarterly goals then there's no point in organizing apparently because corruption could happen some day.
Revolution like any greater task must be broken down into smaller specific tasks with constant reassessment as to what has worked and what needs to change. I don't think you disagree with this. However when those tasks have ambiguous timelines or completion metrics then the incentives of those assigned to the task drift from doing the task towards maintaining or improving their position. If you haven't witnessed this in your workplace or elsewhere then you are very lucky. Then when you add the real power and privilege that rising in the ranks of a state provide then you will see misalignment of interests that is far beyond what anyone in a temporary workgroup would face as well as selecting for those who want the power rather than those who want to see the job done.
Great well then you'll love to hear about my 5 year plan