coordination

When organizations are very small, individuals matter most. But when organizations grow larger, the system - its structure and dynamics - comes to dominate the analysis.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire 🇯🇵❤️🚢 Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg A thread 🧵 https://t.co/dJpffVLvVg... See more

"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."–Marvin Conway

Predicting ten years into the future is hard https://t.co/kh3mDAOIgd

Open this picture. It illustrates the EXTENT of Japan's dominance in the LNG supply chain 👉 A Japanese company produces the shale gas 👉 Gas is sent to an LNG plant partially owned by a Japanese company 👉 LNG is loaded on a ship built and owned by a Japanese company 👉 The ship is controlled by a Japanese company, which sends it to Thailand 👉 T... See more

There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one sid... See more

...we’ve been trained to think of organizations as homogenous and mechanistic, with a clear set of rules, a command-and-control structure, and the ability to leverage hierarchy to get things done quickly by issuing top-down directives to reallocate resources to meet objectives.

Economic Complexity measures a country's knowledge and capabilities. It reflects the depth of expertise within a society. For instance, activities like gold mining require less specialized knowledge and a relatively small workforce compared to other industries.