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July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If fast food figured this out in 1953, surely disaster response in 2025 can too.
It’s time to stop solving problems by adding complexity and start clearing the chalkboard.
It’s time to stop solving problems by adding complexity and start clearing the chalkboard.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If fast food figured this out in 1953, surely disaster response in 2025 can too.
It’s time to stop solving problems by adding complexity and start clearing the chalkboard.
It’s time to stop solving problems by adding complexity and start clearing the chalkboard.
What would a smarter approach look like?
- Fewer redundant systems
- Leaner decision pathways
- Local-first autonomy backed by shared visibility
- Technology that reduces steps, not adds them
- Governance that trims noise instead of creating more
- Fewer redundant systems
- Leaner decision pathways
- Local-first autonomy backed by shared visibility
- Technology that reduces steps, not adds them
- Governance that trims noise instead of creating more
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What would a smarter approach look like?
- Fewer redundant systems
- Leaner decision pathways
- Local-first autonomy backed by shared visibility
- Technology that reduces steps, not adds them
- Governance that trims noise instead of creating more
- Fewer redundant systems
- Leaner decision pathways
- Local-first autonomy backed by shared visibility
- Technology that reduces steps, not adds them
- Governance that trims noise instead of creating more
The result?
A “network” that should enable flexible coordination becomes a tangled mess where everything takes longer and no one knows who owns the next step.
Just like in Braess’s Paradox, more routes do not equal better flow.
A “network” that should enable flexible coordination becomes a tangled mess where everything takes longer and no one knows who owns the next step.
Just like in Braess’s Paradox, more routes do not equal better flow.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The result?
A “network” that should enable flexible coordination becomes a tangled mess where everything takes longer and no one knows who owns the next step.
Just like in Braess’s Paradox, more routes do not equal better flow.
A “network” that should enable flexible coordination becomes a tangled mess where everything takes longer and no one knows who owns the next step.
Just like in Braess’s Paradox, more routes do not equal better flow.
Data gets entered multiple times across disconnected systems.
New rules get stacked on top of old ones, funneling everyone through the same compliance channels.
Everyone arrives with different forms, workflows, and command structures.
Plans grow in number but don’t connect to field execution.
New rules get stacked on top of old ones, funneling everyone through the same compliance channels.
Everyone arrives with different forms, workflows, and command structures.
Plans grow in number but don’t connect to field execution.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Data gets entered multiple times across disconnected systems.
New rules get stacked on top of old ones, funneling everyone through the same compliance channels.
Everyone arrives with different forms, workflows, and command structures.
Plans grow in number but don’t connect to field execution.
New rules get stacked on top of old ones, funneling everyone through the same compliance channels.
Everyone arrives with different forms, workflows, and command structures.
Plans grow in number but don’t connect to field execution.
🧠 In emergency management, we’ve added:
- More agencies
- More rules
- More software
- More plans
- More layers of approval
But instead of improving response, recovery, or clarity… it’s made the system more fragile.
- More agencies
- More rules
- More software
- More plans
- More layers of approval
But instead of improving response, recovery, or clarity… it’s made the system more fragile.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🧠 In emergency management, we’ve added:
- More agencies
- More rules
- More software
- More plans
- More layers of approval
But instead of improving response, recovery, or clarity… it’s made the system more fragile.
- More agencies
- More rules
- More software
- More plans
- More layers of approval
But instead of improving response, recovery, or clarity… it’s made the system more fragile.
And oddly enough, that’s exactly the lesson emergency management needs to hear today.
Even if the McDonald’s crew didn’t know it, they were solving a version of Braess’s Paradox - a systems principle that shows how adding more paths can slow down the entire network.
Even if the McDonald’s crew didn’t know it, they were solving a version of Braess’s Paradox - a systems principle that shows how adding more paths can slow down the entire network.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
And oddly enough, that’s exactly the lesson emergency management needs to hear today.
Even if the McDonald’s crew didn’t know it, they were solving a version of Braess’s Paradox - a systems principle that shows how adding more paths can slow down the entire network.
Even if the McDonald’s crew didn’t know it, they were solving a version of Braess’s Paradox - a systems principle that shows how adding more paths can slow down the entire network.
They didn’t expand the kitchen.
They didn’t add more fryers or fancy systems.
They removed everything that got in the way of a clean, fast process.
That’s how they unlocked a revolution in fast food - by doing less, better.
They didn’t add more fryers or fancy systems.
They removed everything that got in the way of a clean, fast process.
That’s how they unlocked a revolution in fast food - by doing less, better.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
They didn’t expand the kitchen.
They didn’t add more fryers or fancy systems.
They removed everything that got in the way of a clean, fast process.
That’s how they unlocked a revolution in fast food - by doing less, better.
They didn’t add more fryers or fancy systems.
They removed everything that got in the way of a clean, fast process.
That’s how they unlocked a revolution in fast food - by doing less, better.
In The Founder, there’s a scene where the original McDonald’s team sketches out their kitchen in chalk on a parking lot. They run drills. Revise the layout. Eliminate wasted motion. Tighten the flow.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In The Founder, there’s a scene where the original McDonald’s team sketches out their kitchen in chalk on a parking lot. They run drills. Revise the layout. Eliminate wasted motion. Tighten the flow.