# Achieving Mature Organizations By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-10-04 Most organizations do not have analytics representation on their executive "team" or board of directors. Instead, most executives have a group of people who act as their analytics team behind the scenes. These analytics teams are hoarded and siloed away to serve the needs of their self-appointed leader. Why is this? A big chunk is power and controlling the narrative. However, another big chunk is ignorance and maintenance of the status quo. As the group focused on figuring things out and thinking, sequestering analytics intuitively strikes as organizationally counterproductive. Who provides a third-party perspective? Who speaks "truth" to power? No one. Hence, most organizations fall and pursue pointless endeavors. There are only organizational winners because the current game produces winners by default. In the current organizational, economic game, there is no such thing as ties or everyone losing. Naturally, some groups will get lucky and outperform others. Then, the leaders of this organization write books about why and how they won the game via excellent skill, wit, and foresight. Luck is rarely mentioned as the reason anyone is successful. Still, in a game where meritocracy does not exist, luck might be the most significant factor in anyone's "success." Giving analytics a seat at the table with no one to report to but the theoretical organization entity would result in analytics pointing out this fact - bruising the carefully crafted egos of executives. Instead of dismissing luck, organizations would leverage it as an asset and learn to benefit from the disorder. Planning would become an exercise of responding to that moment's roll of the dice rather than setting a 12-month objective that is impossible to predict. Organizations would start to act like well-adjusted, mature, and informed people. Stoic organizations would realize they can't control the universe. Self-actualizing organizations would pursue meaning and sense-making. Instead, organizations are 8-year-old children, and one only shares their toys if forced by their parents. #### Related Items [[Analytics]] [[Organization]] [[Thinking]] [[Luck]] [[Self-Actualization]] [[Solidarity]] [[Stoicism]] [[Management]]