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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

In order to implement strategy, an organization needs to integrate structure, processes, and people. A successful redesign will focus the company's resources on its strategic priorities and reduce costs. An example of a typical motivation for a redesign is a company that decided to expand outside of its US home base.

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

...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.

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