{"id":448,"date":"2023-07-19T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T09:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2023-07-20T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:04:45","slug":"convergencia-de-belleza-y-eficiencia-eliminar-lo-que-sobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/convergencia-de-belleza-y-eficiencia-eliminar-lo-que-sobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and efficiency converging: eliminating excess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public waste is not just the responsibility of governments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell\u2019s Law indicates that quantity is an inconvenient norm to evaluate people. With organisations, quantity is the equivalent to size. Albeit not its aim, this law insinuates that non-stop growing comes before collapse and coincides with Michelangelo\u2019s principle of beauty: removing excess. Eliminating what is surplus is recommendable. A fallacy goes around public managers: identifying quality with quantity, efficiency with size. The smaller the size means being faster, resisting and going far; size helps. However, that is for the real world, the private world. The public sector does not go bankrupt because we all pay the debt. Being too small makes us less resistant to crisis in the private sector, particularly if the State fiscally attacks instead of helping firms as in Spain. One of the Spanish system\u2019s economic weaknesses is the small size of the vast majority of Spanish firms because 99.8% are SMEs that are too small to withstand crises. As Social security payments are so high, contracting workers is too expensive. Each tax measure taken by S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government eliminates the self-employed. The consequence is more unemployment and more hidden economy. The mean lifetime of leading firms in the world is some 30 years because of technological advances and many mergers fail. Being bigger is not being more efficient. Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are very efficient small countries. Bigger means more bureaucracy and more expense. When large empires are inefficient, they are taken over by small armies. The best universities in the world are small private ones. Intelligence is confused, which is the capacity to acquire knowledge by applying wisdom that is, in turn, knowing how to use intelligence and experience to make complex decisions. Generalised lack of liberal ideas in education, trade unions\u2019 influence and politicisation do not result in cutting surplus spending. Digitisation allows administration costs to reduce, but not so in the public sector. Telework grows and productivity lowers. Instead of amortising teaching posts by retirement, new superfluous degrees are invented to not cut size. Good management is more efficient, and improves offered services with as few workers as possible, who work in a motivating environment. Improving by spending and getting in debt do not improve management, but are merely embezzlement. What is complex about size is watching to identify better management with growth, regardless of it being offered degrees or students. Perhaps it would be worthwhile improving employability, not replicating degrees already available in other public institutions; adapting research to commercialisable criteria (i.e., innovation) instead of generating mountains of disposable knowledge, producing it to count it without meeting others\u2019 needs. Public rigidness makes eliminating superfluous offers difficult once they are created. Dual cross-sectional degrees in Computer Studies or Telecommunications with Humanities, Economics or Law are worthwhile (if not already offered) because legality and economics are present in any activity. Regional governments should streamline offered degrees to avoid replicating offers, which would imply huge savings. For example, offering a degree in Public Works and Mathematics interests no-one. Spanish economics interests many, but produces very little with no productive sovereignty, generates unemployment and expels talent because Spain does not offer job opportunities to the 1.5 million university students there are. The best students must emigrate to be professionally valued. With public debt at 1.8 billion euros when a new government enters, rectors should think about the common good. There are thousands of excess administration posts with digitisation and their posts are not amortised when they retire, but teachers do administration work. The government\u2019s politicised universities system spends more energy on votes and propaganda than on taking risks. There are too many Vice-Rectorates of internationalisation, communication, inclusion, etc. Training courses (from Trade Unions) and quality vocational training are niches of activity that the new public university should lead by streamlining the offer of public university degrees. PhD students should adapt to companies\u2019 needs and not be oriented by academic guidelines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enviado a  Las Provincias<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sent to be published in the Las Provincias newspaper in August 2023<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El derroche p\u00fablico no es solo responsabilidad de Gobiernos. La ley de Campbell nos ense\u00f1a que la cantidad es un patr\u00f3n inconveniente para la evaluaci\u00f3n de personas. Trat\u00e1ndose de una organizaci\u00f3n la cantidad equivale al tama\u00f1o. Sin pretenderlo,  su ley insin\u00faa que crecer sin freno conduce al colapso, y coincide con el principio de belleza de … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociedad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}