The Daily WTF

One of the main tasks any company needs to do is allocate resources. Regardless of the product or the industry they’re in, they have to decide how to employ the assets they have to make money. No one has really “solved” this problem, and that’s why there are swarms of resource planning systems, project management tools, and cultish trend-following.

After a C-suite shuffle at James B‘s employer, one of the newly installed C-level execs had some big ideas. They were strongly influenced by one of the two life-changing books, and not the one involving orcs. A company needs to allocate resources. The economy, as a whole, needs to allocate resources. If, on the economic level, we use markets to allocate resources because they’re more efficient than planning, then we should use markets internally as well.

For the most part, and for most groups in the company, this was just a

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