My first thought when I saw this post by Glen Alleman was ”cargo cult“. I’m wary of concepts from hard sciences that find their way into business jargon, largely because the concepts become incantations. It feels like we’re appropriating the prestige of science, just like a cargo cult’s “focus on obtaining the material wealth (the “cargo”) of the advanced culture [...]
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Emmanuel Gobillot commented on my post on self-organization (here). I liked his comment so much that I thought it was worth highlighting below: I have found four conditions which need to be in place for communities to be productive. I called these Simplicity (a coherent and simple way to engage), Narrative (an underpinning story for [...]
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“Adventure is just bad planning.” I’ve found that the amount of adventure in a project is inversely proportional to the amount of proper planning that went into — and continued throughout — that project. Glen hits that point (here) when he uses the 5 P’s — a long-ago Scoutmaster (a USMC sergeant) introduced them more saltily [...]
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