coordination
organizations; organizational design; systems
coordination
...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.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
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.
Yaw • 5 Questions You May Have asked: What is Economic Complexity and Which Countries are Increasing Their Economic Complexity?
less coordination is required for less economically complex tasks
and he was yet again correct just one year later
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
As the cost of replication trends towards zero, the most crucial ingredient for value capture is judgement in decision making
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Learning from catastrophe
technologyreview.comExcerpt:
Take the average modern jetliner, with its 7 million components and 170 miles’ worth of wiring—an immensely complex system in and of itself. There were over 25,000 jetliners in regular service in 2014, according to Downer. Together, they averaged 100,000 flights every single day. Now consider that in 2017, no passenger-carrying commercial jetliner was involved in a fatal accident. Zero. That year, passenger totals reached 4 billion on close to 37 million flights. Yes, it was a record-setting year for the airline industry, safety-wise, but flying remains an almost unfathomably safe and reliable mode of transportation.
The Ancient City That Mastered Water
youtu.be"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
Wikipedia • Conway's law
