Somebody else with a similar time span would say, 'I don't know what all the fuss is about around here. And somebody else would plead with me, 'Doc, you gotta do something for us. In the early 1980s, he codified his findings. At the heart of the Jaques work is this double helix of human capability in organizations. Each of us is born with a certain potential ability to handle complexity.
Some people start out higher than others.
On the bright side, we all continue to mature all our lives, making occasional palpable leaps in our ability about every 15 years, as we cross a threshold into the next level of capability. That brings us to the other side of the double helix. The fit between time-horizon levels and strata determines how comfortable we will feel at various positions in a hierarchy.