Low-agency: “That’s not my job.” High-agency: “That’s not my job, but it’s blocking my job, so it’s my problem.” The high-agency person has discove… - Kpaxs

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Low-agency: “That’s not my job.”

High-agency: “That’s not my job, but it’s blocking my job, so it’s my problem.”

The high-agency person has discovered that organizational charts describe reporting structures, not the actual topology of getting things done. They’ve learned to route around damage.

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Pseudonymous reader and writer based in Paris. Posts as @Kpaxs on X and publishes the Three Times Wiser Substack. Real name not publicly disclosed.

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