The built world, the things we create at work—conceptual, digital, physical, or otherwise—always break down. That break down is called entropy, the process of systems losing order and falling apart, and it's the reason there's always more work to be done.
Entropy happens to everything: sand castles, abandoned buildings, a large language model, software, relationships, your team meeting, a project that won't seem to launch, heck even the despised status quo.
It's our effort—our work—that in many instances pushes back and overcomes entropy to maintain order. Order, in this instance, being that a thing (again conceptual, digital, physical, or otherwise) continues to operate as intended/adapted.
Yet entropy never stops. The rate of decline in a system never decreases. And the effort required to overcome entropy must at least match the system's rate of decline in order to remain stable.
In other words, every natural system in your organization (of which there are many) requires management, in the broadest definition of the term, to sustain. Once more, that's the work we do every day.
So the consideration should be: Is this (new program, existing process, etc.) a good use of the limited management resources any of us have available (time, energy, motivation, etc.)?
And for those in positions that create work for others to do: Will this be considered valuable compared to the effort required to manage it?
