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Let's be Fwends #115:

Commitment and Compliance

"Why all these requests for commitment? It is because we want to avoid the alternative: compliance." ~ Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick

Sometimes, a short sentence gets you thinking. Are Compliance and Commitment really opposites? Are they mutually exclusive? Can you be committed but not compliant at the same time? Can you be compliant and not compliant?

How would that look like?

I set out to build a Greimas Square of this pair of opposites. You can find the results here:

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Take care, you're a rockstar,

peter

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