{"id":3205,"date":"2019-03-05T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2022-03-06T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T03:02:18","slug":"the-gervais-principle-part-3-the-curse-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/03\/05\/the-gervais-principle-part-3-the-curse-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gervais Principle PART 3 &#8211; The Curse of Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2010\/04\/14\/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2010\/04\/14\/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development\/<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/08\/06\/venkatesh-rao-of-ribbonfarm\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Venkatesh Rao<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the archetypes that inhabit organizations (Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless), what they do (the Gervais Principle) and how (the four languages). In this part, we\u2019ll use a somewhat unorthodox take on the idea of arrested development to explain why the three groups behave as they do, and use that to predict the outcomes of individual interpersonal interactions&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2010\/04\/14\/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2010\/04\/14\/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development\/ By Venkatesh Rao In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the archetypes that inhabit organizations (Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless), what they do (the Gervais Principle) and how (the four languages). In this part, we\u2019ll use a somewhat unorthodox take on the idea of arrested development to explain why the three groups &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/03\/05\/the-gervais-principle-part-3-the-curse-of-development\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[895,898,919],"tags":[1132],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-theory-and-strategy","category-culture-and-cultural-insights","category-venkatesh-rao-of-ribbonfarm","tag-the-gervais-principle","nodate","item-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Gervais Principle PART 3 - The Curse of Development - Media Blitz Publicity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/03\/05\/the-gervais-principle-part-3-the-curse-of-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gervais Principle PART 3 - The Curse of Development - Media Blitz Publicity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2010\/04\/14\/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development\/ By Venkatesh Rao In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the archetypes that inhabit organizations (Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless), what they do (the Gervais Principle) and how (the four languages). 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