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Previously I said, talking about the relationship between employment, local communities and managers in large corporates:-
But their misunderstanding on that front is an entirely other story, that has to do with the incompetence of managers.
When it comes to government and countries there was a fair amount of truth in a training day I attended at Serco once. There was a dramatisation of the relationship between managers and their equerries where the senior manager was characterised as a slow bass drum and the interlocutor as much more rapid fire.
The truth this intuitively encapsulates is that organisation is over many points of fine detail:an organisational element is high level and it encapsulates (accurately or not, transparently or not) detail. This is what 'to organise' means. (ref:C. S. Peirce)
What the dramatisation was less helpful with was how one might communicate points of detail that are really important to the structure being employed in organisation.
And it certainly did not venture into the troubled sea of how one might know that these points of detail are important. How would such an assessment be made?
Now I have said enough for it to be plain how incredibly important the recent riots are. These are points of detail that challenge the de facto organisational principals that are being employed in this society. The only responsible thing to do is to bring this to the attention of those who may institute some change. That change would probably be in the way in which they understand the principals they employ.
Going back to what I said in the previous post it is also possible to see that corporates are following the easiest, perhaps the only, path open to themselves. The effort required to operate differently is not commensurate with any possible gain. In fact they would be penalised.
And this is where very specific recommendation kick in. Issues I have raised many time before in this blog and elsewhere and seem all the more relevant, to the point of urgency, today.