12-18-2021, 02:05 PM
(12-18-2021, 01:32 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: Do the best-structured organizations always yield the best results? No. Do the smartest people always make the best decisions? No. Sometimes, it's pure, blind luck, like in A Random Walk down Wall Street. Sometimes the complexity of relationships and personalities can't be quantified. If it could, we'd reduce winning to a simple set of steps, a nice formula that yields repeatable results. Life isn't like that.Indeed. Why bother to try to improve a poorly structured organization or hire smarter people? An exercise in futility. Everything is random, and nothing matters. Life is a dark, cold, and lonely wilderness, and all we can do is howl in it.
Matthew Arnold said it best --
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Dover Beach