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" For three summers, I worked as a forest ranger in behalf of the Commonwealth (God save it!). I learned a lot about work. I learned a lot about government work. I learned a lot about hiding from the boss, which is easier to do out in the woods than it is to do in the average cubicle farm. So this does not surprise me at all. Rather, veterans advised embeds to perform tasks strictly by the book whenever a manager was in sight, in order to avoid calling attention to themselves. As such, the researchers noticed that production seemed to slow down whenever the employees knew they were being watched. The level of workplace transparency meant that just as managers could see their employees more easily, the reverse was true as well. The official company practices happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade-tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no ill-intent or cheating behind such hiding behavior, but merely a rational calculation about human behavior: Operators were hiding their freshest, most innovative techniques from management so as not to &amp;quot;bear the cost of explaining better ways of doing things to others.&amp;quot; Okay, time for everyone in authority in every American workplace to take the afternoon off. Really, boss. We got it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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