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Nobody made the decision

Orange question mark art installation along False Creek waterfront with BC Place Stadium in background in, Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, B.C. Canada.
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Zordani discusses how modern organizations can produce consequential outcomes that no individual person actually chose.

One of the strangest characteristics of the modern organization is its ability to produce consequential decisions that no individual person actually made.

A classification enters a system. That classification activates a rule. The rule determines how a transaction is routed. Another system calculates an amount, assigns a status, establishes eligibility,

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