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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Corollary #3: THE BIGGER THE SYSTEM, THE NARROWER AND MORE SPECIALIZED THE INTERFACE WITH INDIVIDUALS
John Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
For more on the large-batch death spiral, see The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen: http://bit.ly/pdflow
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
RelayRides and BlockChalk are examples of Manzini’s “fluidity of use,” the idea of removing barriers to use so that the solution is attractive and seamless to take up. Fluidity of use could be applied more widely to Collaborative Consumption. The postage system on SwapTree that automatically calculates the United States Postal Service shipping cost
... See moreRachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”—John Gall
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Living systems have integrity. Their character depends on the whole. The same is true for organizations; to understand the most challenging managerial issues requires seeing the whole system that generates the issues.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
establish a sense of boundaries: what are the dimensions of this problem?
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The formative principles of the universe distinguish everything, yet separate nothing. They sustain nothing in perpetuity, yet perpetually generate everything.