The Deal.

An organisation’s major means of action, finally, can only be the manipulation of information or at least the strict regulation of access to information.

Michael Crozier, ‘The Bureaucratic Phenomenon’

We join an organisation for the same reason we hire a cab, cleaner, tradesperson, or watch the news or read a newspaper or a book.

We want someone else to go to the effort to decide what’s best for us.

We want someone else to curate the volume of information and choose what we need, and make it into a story.

We make a deal with the boss: you cut up my meat and mash my potatoes and feed me, and I won’t complain about the blandness of the processed food.

Don’t believe me?

Try working for yourself.