Goals are required for an organization to cohere.
- Goals are required for an organization to cohere.
- If you hired 50 brilliant, autonomous people and gave no goal, the organization would just diffuse.
- A lot of random stuff happening, nothing cohering.
- A consistent goal is required for the various components to start to accrete into something larger.
- Once accretion happens it tends to self-accelerate.
- The emergent goal becomes more obviously the thing to pull towards.
- The gravitational pull gets stronger and stronger.
- Goals can also emerge bottom-up, as some random bit of noise turns out to work, and other agents see it work and start orienting toward it.
- The more that others orient toward it and build on it, the more likely other agents also see it and orient toward it.