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Day 100 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #HenryMintzberg #StrategySafari focused on the effectiveness & practicality of different strategic approaches, so it examines strategy mostly from managerial, organizational & competitive perspectives.

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June 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Day 99 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #HenryMintzberg #StrategySafari reviews 10 distinct schools of strategic thought, recognizing that 1) each school has value & limitations, 2) different contexts require different strategic approaches.

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June 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Day 98 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MartyCagan #Transformed similarly to #Inspired & #Empowered doesn't consider how to handle political, hierarchical, or coercive structures, or who defines product success, who is affected, who is excluded?

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June 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Day 97 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MartyCagan #Transformed emphasizes transition from output to outcome oriented models, making structural change across leadership, teams, processes, while focusing on continuous discovery, validation, iteration.

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June 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Day 96 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #JasonFried #Rework mostly focused on internal teams, organizational efficiency & personal authenticity. No guidance on how to manage power structures, internal politics, systemic inequalities...

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June 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Day 95 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #JasonFried #Rework constraints like limited budget, fewer features, or tight deadline force companies to simplify & focus on essentials. Also, short, focused, asynchronous interactions over unnecessary meetings.

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June 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Day 94 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #SethGodin #ThisIsMarketing emphasizes understanding customers & empathizing with them, acknowledging issues like market manipulation & ethical considerations, but offers no systematic tools to address them.

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June 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Day 93 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #SethGodin #ThisIsMarketing the principle "not mass" (meaning targeted, meaningful audience), "not spam" (permission-based engagement), "not shameful" (no manipulative tactics) will remain etched in my neocortex.

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June 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Day 92 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #StevenKotler #StealingFire a lot of nice anecdotes, but they lost me at "...the human brain remains the most complex machine on the planet". That's not how the mind works.

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June 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Day 91 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #StevenKotler #StealingFire flow & ecstasis emerge from systemic interactions under appropriate conditions without top-down planning or linear control, spontaneously improving individual & collective performance.

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June 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Day 90 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MatthewSkeleton #TeamTopologies shows internal organizational design for effective software delivery, but provides limited insight on how external stakeholders (customers, regulators, communities) impact orgs.

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June 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Day 89 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MatthewSkeleton #TeamTopologies recommends continuously adaptive organizational design & varied team structures, stream-aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem, platform... to address different contexts.

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June 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Day 88 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MichaelUseem #TheEdge emphasizes leadership perspective without providing tools for leaders to identify stakeholders beyond organizational boundary, engage them in structured dialogue or manage conflicts.

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June 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Day 87 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MichaelUseem #TheEdge effective leaders understand complex, dynamic contexts & adapt decision-making to a situation. To address unexpected market dynamics, leaders must critically evaluate their approach.

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June 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Day 86 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #BryceHoffman #RedTeaming doesn't provide structured methods for systematically analyzing who holds power or decision context & how power dynamics influence the red-teaming process or critiques.

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June 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Day 85 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #BryceHoffman #RedTeaming advocates challenging of assumptions & structured questioning using multiple methods such as Devil’s Advocate, Pre-Mortems, Alternative Analysis, Think-Write-Share...

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June 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Day 84 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #JamesSurowiecki #TheWisdomOfCrowds although it warns against conformity & pressure toward groupthink, it doesn't provide methods or frameworks to analyze how they shape collective intelligence.

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June 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Day 83 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #JamesSurowiecki #TheWisdomOfCrowds cognitive diversity enhances collective decision-making & case studies from the book show that decentralized systems outperform centralized ones in complex scenarios.

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June 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Day 82 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #ChristopherVoss #NeverSplitTheDifference is ethically aware but tactically oriented, mostly focused on individual-level negotiations & immediate outcomes, without tools to assess long-term systemic impact.

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June 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Day 81 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #ChristopherVoss #NeverSplitTheDifference tactical empathy is a negotiation tool for understanding your counterpart’s perspective, verbalizing that understanding & employing emotional insights to build trust.

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June 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Day 80 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MattRidley #TheRationalOptimist while free-markets can spark innovation, the colonialism shows they aren't inherently positive. And what about ethical implications behind fertilizers, led gasoline, teflon...

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June 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Day 79 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MattRidley #TheRationalOptimist prosperity & innovation emerge spontaneously from decentralized markets & then evolve through iterative interactions, experimentation & cultural adaptation.

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June 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Day 78 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MichaelBlastland #TheTigerThatIsnt encourages skepticism about numbers, but doesn't provide structured methods or frameworks, to engage in interpretation of statistics, aside from some individual-level tools.

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June 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Day 77 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #MichaelBlastland #TheTigerThatIsnt combines insights from economics, psychology, social science & mathematics to question assumptions behind quantitative data. Numbers cannot be fully understood without context.

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June 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Day 76 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking

💡 #FritjofCapra #TheTurningPoint maybe one aspect where it shows its age is the lack of structured methodologies & tools to address the societal & cultural imbalances, beyond just integrating different sciences.

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June 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM