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That is funny! I wonder how the company stayed in business if that's how they acted all the time.

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Thanks, Matthew. It survived because it's a local authority and was not subject to ordinary commercial pressures, although I thought they were deluding themselves in thinking that!

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Nothing like organizations that contain multitudes.

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You mean like Walt Whitman? ("Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." Indeed, very apposite!

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Also thinking about how easy it is for the components of an organization to have opposing goals which ultimately create a frustrating consumer experience.

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You got that right, Mark!

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Goodness me, Terry - frustration doesn't even cover it! :D

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Quite! One of these days I shall write about more shenanigans in that place.

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