GAME B

Obviously the state could transform itself, from a Fordist cathedral to an organization designed to deliver performance in the Entrepreneurial Age. The problem is that like many big, dominant corporations, it experiences a version of Clayton Christensen’s “innovator’s dilemma”[392]. One reason is the rule of law, which in many cases prevents innova

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GameB is not yet well defined but it has four fundamentals: 1) self-organizational 2) network-oriented, 3) decentralized, and 4) metastable for an extended period of time [JimSez] at least a few hundred years.

Given this understanding that "control" is at best an illusion and at worst a devastating violence to living systems, the question that Bateson was asking is: How does change happen? How does a family change? How does a marriage change? How does an ecosystem change? How does a culture change?

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Usually when we find trillion-dollar bills lying on the ground in real life, it’s a symptom of (1) a central-command bottleneck that nobody else is allowed to fix, as with the European Central Bank wrecking Europe, or (2) a system with enough moving parts that at least two parts are simultaneously broken, meaning that single actors cannot defy the

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