As were our ancient ancestors, we are born hardwired to instinctively pursue the common good. That is how as a frail, prey species our race in tribal bands became a dominant predator. However, these instincts don’t stop there. On the dark side of the common good, we instinctively band together to disassemble self-serving institutions. Ridding a society of such institutions serves the common good. We come to this task armed with the instinctive guile to dismember these institutions without them knowing it, or for that matter without knowing it ourselves. While building up institutions dedicated to the common good of all is by far preferable, once found self-serving, complete and utter disassembly takes roughly 20 years (Elliott Jaques’ span of institution creation turned dark). Bankruptcy courts are littered with examples.
While an intervention turns an organization to the common good for everyone’s benefit, haughty, self-serving individuals are likely entrenched at all levels with “one for all” a lauded ideal but in practice a distant memory, back to the organization’s founding. So given an institutional history of over 5 years, chances are an analyst versed in the intervention has little chance of gaining entry. Should an analyst gain entry under these conditions, the employees responsible for opening the door most likely loose their jobs. Simply, the organization is too far gone. The homepage asks the question “what organization wouldn’t bring in the person who originiated the means” to the much needed stability? Well most likely, the answer is such an organization is one that is too far gone.
The hope is that making this process conscious and the intervention known as in the book available on this website, Time for Change, gives choice to an otherwise instinctive, unconscious process moving through to disassembly. Yet, should an organization somehow on its own make an improbable turn away from the good of a few and back to the common good for most everyone involved, the benefits are unfathomable, as the book explains in great detail.