Banks — “What passed for useful information sharing within an…”

Source: (no source given) — Iain M. Banks

From: Surface Detail

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What passed for useful information sharing within an organization was really just bureaucratic phatic of people protecting their position, looking for praise, projecting criticism, setting up positions of non-responsibility for upcoming failures and calamities, that were both entirely predictable, but seemingly completely unavoidable and telling each other what they all already knew.