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How to approach politics?

The political elements that naturally concern us are macroeconomic and geopolitical ones: France's fiscal challenge, the rise of populism in the United States, the war in Ukraine, etc.
We therefore naturally seek answers to these questions at the macro level. This is a flawed approach, leading to endless verbal sparring, sterile oppositions of opinion, and ultimately, powerlessness, because regardless of the political systems put in place, these problems persist or transform into even worse ones.

What is important to understand is that what we observe at the macro level is not so much the result of decisions made at the macro level as it is the sum of millions of behaviors at the micro level.
Therefore, we can legitimately use the macro level to evaluate and measure the relevance of a social organization, but when we want to take action, we must absolutely delve into the details of what happens at the micro level, that is to say, at the individual level and within human-scale organizations.
Consequently, we should not focus on the behavior of a multinational corporation, but rather on the behavior of each group of a few individuals within that multinational. We should not focus on the overall behavior of a ministry, but on the behavior of each department of a sufficiently modest size so that people know each other.

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Consult the question 'What is Lean production?' to understand the importance of focusing on what happens at the ground level.