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Chapter VIIIA Spanner in the Works

If High Performance is the natural state of a well-functioning, self-organizing system, and the toxic, and sometimes lethal, by-products of self-organization are effectively processed by Griefwork, what is the problem? By all rights it would seem that we need only to allow the fundamental power of self-organization, well assisted by Griefwork, to do the job, and the Holy Grail of High Performance should be well within our grasp. Not occasionally, not as some odd anomaly——but everyday, 24×7. Somewhere, it would seem, there is a spanner in the works.

The clue to the mystery lies in the word “allow,” as in “we need only to allow the fundamental power of self-organization … to do its job.” The problem is that ...

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