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personal ambition under control;
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?
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Managers change when the use cases—the required behavior of the system—change.
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
the structure causes the behavior and the structure is brought into play by my intention and action.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Gaye Soykok • Potential in the ebb and the flaw
that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
This has implications for the management of all systems, particularly social-control systems. Community members, like boids, birds, fish, or nodes, need to operate autonomously under three or four basic rules, self-organizing within groups, spaces, and data sets to form complex learning communities.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
First, for an Engine to exist, there must be some fundamental operational volatility that you should encapsulate—that is, an unknown number of ways of doing something. Such volatilities are uncommon. If your design contains a large number of Engines, you may have inadvertently done a functional decomposition.