Indeed, often a mix of both types of processes is needed within a company.
For those who are not familiar with it, check out Jeff Bezos’ 1997 Letter to Shareholders on irreversible (Type 1) vs. reversible (Type 2) decision making.
There are examples of successful companies all over the founder mode spectrum.
What level of "founder mode" is optimal depends on a lot of factors. For example:
- size of the company
- available people (at every level of the company)
- type and number of products (is it possible to scale the work over different departments?)
- qualities/personalities of the founders (trust me when I tell you, being micromanaged by a non-technical founder on a technical product is not effective)
- type of business (for example; in aviation, you're going to need a lot of certification management)
And you can execute poorly all over the spectrum, even when making the right choice on the level of "founder mode".
Yes, this is very odd. Exercise is healthy because it lowers blood pressure and BMI. They compensate for blood pressure and BMI, and lo and behold, no health effects are left..
A not very insightful article on a serious problem, assembling facts in no particular order.
One pet peeve I want to point out.
It is true that a number of (violent) organised crime groups in the Netherlands have a background in smuggling weed. (Weed is essentially legal to consume but illegal to grow in the Netherlands. Thus there is an associated underworld.)
Some of these groups then pivoted to the more profitable cocaine trade as demand for cocaine grew in Europa. These groups already had a criminal logistical network in place, positioning them well to profit from this new business. Note that, because of the specifics of container port cocaine trade (high risk of losing big shipments, higher punishments and police-related risk) it tends to be a much more violent business than the old weed trade.
However, I'm skeptical of the causal relation that is sometimes suggested between the semi-legal status of weed and the cocaine-related organized crime.
This reasoning implicitly presumes that if there was no previous legal consumption of weed that there would be a) no underworld related to growing weed and (i.e. the demand for weed would not exist) and b) organised crime related to cocaine would simply have skipped the Netherlands.
This seems extremely unlikely given what we know from every other country on the planet. Weed consumption in the Netherlands is not particularly high compared to other countries and I see little reason to think that banning the consumption of weed would have made the demand for weed suddenly disappear.
A very good test of the thesis can be found in Belgium - a similarly small country with a similarly large harbor - which never had legal weed consumption and has the exact same issues related to organized crime and cocaine trafficking..
Apart from the fact that this prototype is very ugly, some limitations come to mind.
- Maintenance without blocking the bike lane. Does this require a separate access road?
- Will this work when any trees are nearby? Falling branches are likely to cause damage and block the sun.
- How does this work when buildings are nearby? You will block all the light? I'm having trouble imaging how this will look good in a more dense area - not the mention the extra width required on the sides of the bike path will be hard to get where space is at a premium (cities).
All this seems to point to a rather limited use case: bike lanes in places with few buildings and few trees, and sufficient spacing around the structure to facilitate maintenance access. That presumably means: in sparse industrial zones near edges of cities (as pictured, I suppose).
Which leads to another question: how many sparse industrial zones in Germany actually have bike 4m wide bike paths?