Everyone in the modern enterprise claims to want innovation, but few will risk what it requires. The fear of disturbance—of deviating from the delicate choreography of compliance and plausible deniability—has become the governing logic of management. Systems now reward those who maintain appearances, not those who learn. The result is a recursive theatre of progress: […]
Each extra node, option, or shortcut in a socio-technical communication system expands the state space—it introduces another degree of freedom. Entropy here is not just noise or disorder but the measure of multiplicity: more ways for things to happen, more ways for things to go wrong. Technology, in its hunger for novelty and feature-set expansion, […]
Institutions are adept at naming their own failures but structurally incapable of addressing them. The bureaucratic cycle rewards discussion, reports, committees, and procedures that extend problems rather than resolve them. What gets called “management” is often the art of sustaining a tolerable stalemate, a perpetual negotiation that keeps the machinery alive without meaningfully engaging the […]
Unemployment is never just a matter of individual misfortune; it is the visible seam of a whole system that, by its very structure, requires some to fall outside. Support services exist to catch those who slip, but the system is double-edged: their presence signals both care and the ongoing persistence of the very gaps they […]
A literal gold rush moment, but let’s not kid ourselves about the good, the bad and the ugly of it all. The cadence is already beyond effective management: everyone is constantly playing catch up, and – if you read between the lines, this uncertainty is the kernel core of the value and utility of an […]
…and what is the Marie Celeste, the Ghost Ship of lost management, other than a rudderless and listless vessel, a Ship of Theseus, revisiting the misinterpretations and confusion of the Elders upon their progeny? It is of course simpler to copy, to replicate, to adhere to the blind grammar and rules-based “but this is Best […]
A fascinating feature of contemporary organisational systems, and at all scales of magnitude, is the various ways in which they subscribe to a simplistic mechanical and linear model of ontology and operation. It is as though, while everyone and everywhere is more than happy to commercially and politically exploit the Post-Newtonian and Post-Industrial Revolution technologies […]
Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.
The inelegant facts of a manager’s burden can not be denied…
Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…
If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…
…our globally interconnected organisational systems are still attempting to hammer the square peg of analog thinking and management style into the round hole of digital transformation…
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