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Tony Martyr's avatar

...and, I don't know why this one just popped up in my feed now, when you posted it a year ago?๐Ÿคท

But here's my similar take on it, before I knew it as "principal agent", for what it's worth....

https://open.substack.com/pub/tonymartyr/p/structural-failure?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2jswp

Katy Barnett's avatar

OH! YES! So, I am obsessed with the principal agent problem. I had a big discussion of it in my thesis. ๐Ÿ™Œ

Tony Martyr's avatar

"Non loqui sed facere" is the motto of the UWA Engineering Club.

Thank you for the good peice (you are a good writer, Katy - enjoyable to read), and for (as a sidelight) putting a name (principal agent problem) to something I experience regularly in large organisational structures. I've written about it several times - I should have realised it was a "thing"!