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“It worked once” - The ’selfish gene’ for architects and managers ?
Started by Dhananjay Nene · 11 months ago
I read two completely disconnected posts roughly at the same time, one related to software architects and another to socio-biology - viz. “The five types of poor architects” and “New discovery proves ‘Selfish Gene’ exists” and
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11 months ago
It was nice observation about selfish gene.
You mentioned about "it worked once" that it may result into self inflicted damage. I agree but the person who is taking the advice has to try it atleast once to understand the result or take another path / startegy which in itself can be first time.
Here I am trying to understand and want to be careful while passing on my knowledge / heuristic to my subordinates and not put them / project / organization in a damaging situation :)
Anyway topic has made me to think.
Regards,
Dinkar