{"id":373241,"date":"2026-10-05T22:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=373241"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:20:05","slug":"pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-5-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-5-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 5 \u2013 October \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>THINKER OF THE DAY | MARTIN LANDAU<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Work &#8211; Redundancy, Rationality and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Views<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redundancy is not necessarily waste &#8211; duplication and overlap usually criticised as inefficient, can actually strengthen organisational reliability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Failure is inevitable &#8211; Landau argues that no organisational component is completely reliable therefore, systems should be designed with backup mechanisms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Redundancy reduces risk &#8211; If one unit or mechanism fails another overlapping unit can continue performing the function.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Efficiency vs reliability &#8211; Excessive pursuit of efficiency may eliminate the very buffers and alternatives needed during crises.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Redundancy enhances adaptability &#8211; Overlapping structures can help organisations detect errors, adjust to changing circumstances and continue functioning under uncertainty.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>for e.g. In disasters, pandemics and national-security situations backup capacity becomes more important than narrow cost-minimisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landau &#8211; A reliable organisation is not one that never fails, but one designed to survive failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>KEYWORD OF THE DAY | Position Classification<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It means the systematic grouping of jobs or positions according to their duties, responsibilities and required qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick W. Taylor treats the position rather than the individual employee, as the basic unit of classification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUB AD PYQ VAULT | Day 58 | PYQ (2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of decisions \u2026 is largely a technique of narrowing choices.\u201d Explain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THINKER OF THE DAY | MARTIN LANDAU Work &#8211; Redundancy, Rationality and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap Views Redundancy is not necessarily waste &#8211; duplication and overlap usually criticised as inefficient, can actually strengthen organisational reliability. Failure is inevitable &#8211; Landau argues that no organisational component is completely reliable therefore, systems should be designed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-5-october-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 5 \u2013 October \u2013 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-ad-optional-daily-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}