Resilience versus efficiency

Like resilience, self-organization is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability.

Think about it: Where are the redundancies in your own life? Where’s the emergency brake or the spare tire in your company? How will you deal with the loss of a valuable team member, a critical distributor, or an important client? What will you do if your household loses a source of income? The system must be designed to continue operating even if

Efficiency occurs when a system streamlines and simplifies its resource flow to achieve its aims, say by channelling resources directly between the larger nodes. Resilience, however, depends upon diversity and redundancy in the network, which means that there are ample alternative connections and options in times of shock or change.

Then imagine a situation where, because of changing environmental conditions, externalizing some of these jobs to others becomes possible as long as the same functions remain available in the network.