Oh, the links are behind a paywall for my premium-tier subscribers. But, here they are for the two books mentioned in part 2:

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The book is titled “𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐭𝐬… 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐲𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦” and is now available to order online.

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No organization is immune from this.

#leadership #sytemsthinking #cybernetics #complexity #ashby

But, suddenly (think of the recent protests in Nepal or the collapse of SVB) or many times slowly (like Kodak or Nokia Mobile) your environment will shift and everything will come crashing down as the nature of the feedback loops change in a way you can’t ignore.

In the meanwhile, all the errors made by their leaders go unnoticed as as they optimize for variables like “GDP” or “share price” or “quarterly profit margin” while blindly chasing efficiency.

Network effects and government regulations/action can “guarantee” the survival of an business. But, that won’t last forever.

In an organization, if small errors are suppressed, then the likelihood of a big error wiping it out (of business) only increases.

Systems that have effectively attenuated feedback (real-world consequences) from the environment, (think government agencies) tend to grow bureaucratic over time.

Heinz Von Foerster in conversation with Bernhardt Poerksen on “laws of nature” 🙂: