People usually try to handle BS in two ways.

1. Try to avoid BS
2. Try to build capacity to handle BS

BS is unavoidable. Office politics. Difficult personalities. Inefficiency. The optimal level of BS can never be 0.

Morgan Housel, the author of “Same as Ever”, gives an analogy of a grocery store: A grocery store could eliminate theft by strip-searching every customer leaving the store. But then no one would shop there. So the optimal level of theft is never zero.

With logic in place, a workplace with 0 BS might be a dysfunctional workplace. Hence avoiding BS altogether could be a bad strategy. Thoughts?