Douglas Castle's Third Economic Law.

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Douglas Castle's Third Economic Law: The Two Paths to Success in a Large Organization.

Dear Friends and Detractors:

If you are not an entrepreneur, trust-fund fueled aristocrat, heir (or heiress) to the "family business," independent professional (in a specialty which is in demand, or which is, at very least, third-party reimbursed) or a wheeling and dealing denizen of the "underground economy," you are either a) unemployed or b) working within a large organization.

Those of you who fall into this latter category find yourselves at work in sizeable companies, institutions, foundations and other large clusters of persons massive enough to weild sufficient gravity enough to either attract profits, government funds or donations. You are feeling insecure, expendable, compromised and unwell most of the time. You feel lonely, a bit desperate, and maybe a bit paranoic.

You are in a rough position, especially when the economy throws additional challenges in your direction...staff downsizing, budget cuts, program terminations, ravaged retirement and pension plans...

There are only two paths to staying situated, securing your future (to the extent which you can), and possibly either thriving.

I give you Douglas Castle's Third Economic Law -

The two paths to success in any large organization are:

Production - Bringing in revenues or other funds, whether earned, borrowed or begged; or

Seduction - Since you are not a producer of funds, you must resort to using style instead of substance. You play the game of politics, winning favor with those who can help you trying to crush those who can either compete with you or displace you. You spend endless hours strategizing, propagandizing, campaigning and, where warranted, "sucking up" or whoring. These difficult tasks leave you with virtually no time to actually accomplish anything for the organization which employs and compensates you. In fact, you often find that you are actually .....

• creating problems, just so that you can solve them;
• befriending people whom you'd really rather strangle;
• sabotaging other individuals, regardless of their innocence or favorable qualities, because they make you feel threatened.

I am better at production than at seduction, but both of these activities, taken to extremes, tend to de-humanize us. They turn us into sneaks, liars and animals. I try to avoid letting myself default to my "animal" setting.

If you wish to succeed in a large organization by either route, be prepared to make two sacrifices -- the first one is an act of metaphorical genocide (destroying many people around you, or aiding and abetting those who have the courage and inclination to do that type of bloodletting more expediently than you), and the second is an act of suicide (sacrificing your principles, your true self-esteem, and your soul).

It is indeed the exceptional individual who succeeds in a large organization and manages to retain his or her Humanity. If you are one of these exceptional individuals, please contact me. I'd like to take you to lunch.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle 

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