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The Tyranny of Stucturelessness
It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together both non-hierarchically and effectively.
Saffron Huang • Turing-Complete Governance
the real lesson is that under conditions of true complexity—where the knowledge required exceeds that of any individual and unpredictability reigns—efforts to dictate every step from the center will fail. People need room to act and adapt. Yet they cannot succeed as isolated individuals, either—that is anarchy. Instead, they require a seemingly con
... See moreAtul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Without realizing it, too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control. They espouse Plato’s “division of labor,” which, according to social thinker Hannah Arendt, has influenced government and military structures for thousands of years.
The Arbinger Institute • The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations
Groups must remain socially fluid to work. Fluidity is the other side of illegibility.