Adaptive business organization requires the establishment of autonomous, interdependent business functions as roles in which leaders need to operate within a consistent comfort zone. This allows them to assume responsibility for producing results.

Efficacy demands that individuals assume a role in the environment and take responsibility for developing the tasks needed to achieve results, having the knowledge necessary to make things work.

Comfort zones define a safe space where individuals can exert their individual freedom. This, on the one hand, defines who they are, and on the other hand, delineates their roles in the environment.

The comfort zone of individuals is a materialization of their meaning of life, which is sustained by their unsatisfied needs in the world and the ideal established by their lifestyle.

The Explanation of the Functionalist Principle of Efficacy

Efficacy is the capacity of individuals to produce results in a responsible manner. This implies that efficacy requires awareness of one’s actions. This is why we do not discuss efficacy when evaluating individual art.

The fundamentals of the functionalist principle of efficacy are:

1. Identification with the Role – I(R): Efficacy requires that individuals identify with the role they are fulfilling when they work. The role can be defined as the social identity of the individual.
2. Identification with the Task – I(T): Efficacy requires having the necessary competencies to develop a task that allows one to enjoy the work.
3. Knowledge – K: Knowledge involves having the necessary “knowledge objects” stored in long-term memory to perform the work.

The efficacy of individuals can be calculated using the mathematics of the Unicist Logic:

Unicist Efficacy=I(R)×I(T)×K

Individuals need to assume the responsibility of working in the field of their efficacy, which defines the limits of their possibilities for assuming responsibilities to produce results.

Conclusion

When individuals are outside their comfort zone, the possibility of having reliable knowledge does not exist because they lack the necessary level of consciousness. Under these conditions, the assumption of a role is impossible, and the execution of tasks is only feasible if they are fully automated and do not require reasoning processes.

Therefore, it is a condition for assuming a role in a business process that the people involved work within their natural comfort zone, where they might be trained to acquire additional required knowledge, as it can be stored in their long-term memory.

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