How does the office powerpath use the Prisoner’s Dilemma paradox to seize power ?
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The office powerpath sets up the ability to swap (buildings, furniture, position numbers, whatever). Some people don’t see the advantage of swapping. So the office powerpath comes out ahead. He does this a few times and has made significant gains over potential rivals.
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The office powerpath sets up the ability to swap (buildings, furniture, position numbers, whatever). Some people don’t see the advantage of swapping. So the office powerpath comes out ahead. He does this a few times and has made significant gains over potential rivals.
It’s difficult to prosecute the office powerpath because he seems to encouraging such things as “cross-training” which would seem to benefit the organization.
To Darknei,
Thanks. Terrific.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:20 am
I’m not sure this qualifies as philosophy.
If you have someone in your department acting as an ersatz power-broker, and it is affecting performance of your group as a whole to further his ambitions, you should take it up with him, or his superior if you feel you cannot talk to him without repercussions.
The prisoner’s dilemma doesn’t really pertain to this, it’s just if i remember right an observation of how some people are willing to choose a guaranteed penalty over the risk of a harsher one and the chance of success. Darknei