Organizational collapse

 Now it was natural for us to wonder what kind of work, exactly, would be necessary to allay our worries... My chest had begun to swell throughout the workdays with an old organizational truism, and I repeated to myself: "Good German blood understands that blessings come not from God, but from hard work." Still, that was neither a very good nor a very accurate observation. Hard work was the least of it compared to the work of true intelligence. Besides, why not also mention Austrian blood? The question began to bother me beyond measure, right? Did a certain blood possess virtues of its own? Why the hell praise the German? Why not the Austrian? They had the emperor who could live with enormous and often idiotic problems, like keeping Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, Poles, Jews, and Serbs, along with the Roma, living in peace within a single Habsburg empire. But the Germans would never have managed to do that. Always in eternal quarrels. Without Bismarck they would never have been anything. Insignificant principalities. King Ludwig and the Mad King Ludwig II, both mad Bavarians. And the Prussians even worse. In any case, a beautiful enigma. Besides being an opportunity to exercise good taste, as the idea of ​​taste becomes more precise for us, and with it, that very particular kind of psychic reaction that will lead to Kant's formulation of that mystery of modern sensibility that is aesthetic judgment. Suddenly, the creative fantasy of artists no longer tolerates any imposition or limit, while the "non-artists" are left only to apprehensively "spectare." A multitude of subjects transformed into mere "partners" in the global delirium of a single individual in a trance; a multitude ever less necessary and more passive, on the edge of a magic circle they dare not enter. It is clear that the artist's work of reinvention, in this case, presents itself as a bumpy path, and that there are many collapses along its path, which astonishes the multitude beyond measure: the threat of systems disintegration, the impossibility of meeting deadlines, and the seemingly irreparable dissent. The multitude concluding that I knew something that no one else did. Certainly: I KNEW IT ALL ALONG. A beautiful riddle... But I was thinking now more like a philosopher than a poet. And my daily speeches allowed me to feel beautiful, secret, and diabolical. With an absurd mastery of universal nourishment. I even thought of the present collapses differently. As organizational collapses that required the organization of work and individuals to analyze themselves more rigorously and lose their fear of facing the necessary task of reinvention as soon as possible. Otherwise, the price would be the total paralysis of the kingdom. Transforming the collapse into part of a project, so that it would not dilute the work of despair into a random sowing of apprehensive declarations. The invention of a seemingly impossible future, and the management of the present collapse from this impossible idea of ​​the future, would imply the sowing of concrete chaos. But our modern aesthetic education (it is true) has accustomed us to consider this attitude normal and to disapprove of any interference in the work of the artist of genius as an undue interference in his freedom of action; and, , no modern patron would dare interfere in the conception and execution of the work currently commissioned. In any case, the management team now needed to identify new core competencies or even build them: the weaknesses of existing capabilities and the projects that, if undertaken in time, would strengthen the enterprise's strength. Incidentally, it is remarkable what can be read in Edgar Wind's "Art and Anarchy," when he says that the great patrons of the Renaissance were exactly what we today believe a patron should not be: "uncomfortable and inept partners." Yet, as late as 1855, Jacob Burckhardt could present the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel vault not only as the work of Michelangelo, but as a gift from Pope Julius II to humanity: "THIS IS THE GIFT," he wrote in Cicerone, "LEFT TO US BY POPE JULIUS II. ALTERNATING ENCOURAGEMENT AND DOCILITY, VIOLENCE WITH KINDNESS, HE OBTAINED FROM MICHELANGELO WHAT PROBABLY NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE OBTAINED. HIS MEMORY WILL REMAIN BLESSED FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF ART." Of course, today the situation is different, but the practice of providing extraordinary services to our clients still necessarily entails a high level of stress on all systems. And recognizing the total invulnerability of black magic shops in their responses to their clients' demands is the first step toward strengthening any area of ​​the enterprise.