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The Age of Connectivity

On May 2, 2012 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Besides our complex environmental challenges, businesses are entering a new Age of Connectivity. The technology of connection, while baffling at times, is easier to foresee than the human changes they might entail. The engineers of network growth are ebullient indeed. A recent forecast suggests that in only four [...]

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Cutting Through Complexity

On March 8, 2012 By Compression Institute
Dealing with complexity

A Yogi Berra definition of complexity: “If I understand it, it’s simple; if not, it’s complicated.” So how do we make things seem simple? Increasing complexity seems inevitable, so can we distinguish between useful complexity and wasteful complexity?

Big History scholars contend that accelerating complexity is inevitable. Starting from the Big Bang, [...]

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Preparing for Black Swans

On March 29, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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March 29, 2011

The Sendai (or Tohoku) earthquake has been called a “Black Swan,” a totally unforeseeable event. Can organizations prepare for black swans, or that idea totally illogical hokum?

An example of a pure black swan event was discovery of archaea, the third form of life other than flora and fauna. Before seeing it, [...]

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Making Time to Think

On January 27, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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January 27, 2011

Making Time to Think

Many of us work in a whir – no time to ask why; no time to explore any future consequences far removed. We do what is immediately necessary, like that line in the Charge of the Light Brigade, “Ours is not to question why; [...]

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Collective Complexity

On December 29, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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December 29, 2010

We marvel how individual ants with very limited skills collectively build complex hills and social systems. But human organizations must also collectively accomplish feats much too complex for any one of us alone. So what is a better way to meld our individually limited capacities into a collective marvel? That starts [...]

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Complexity and Communication

On October 5, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
Complexity and Communication

October 5, 2010

CEOs seem to be awakening to increasing complexity, and that it could compel them to restructure their organizations. Doing this, they think, will require greater CEO creativity, according to IBM’s May CEO survey. It’s the best known of several executive surveys tending this way. Readers may [...]

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Antibiotics and Wicked Problems

On September 8, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin in a mold in 1928, warned in the 1940s that overuse and misuse of antibiotics would make bacteria become resistant to them. Ever since, prolific use of antibiotics has cycled through periods of conflict followed by lulls. It’s a great illustration of a “wicked problem.”

Antibiotics occur in nature. [...]

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Toyota Discovers a New World

On May 27, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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May 27, 2010:

Toyota’s recalls are old news fading from mainstream media, but not automotive media. Core problems in the company will take time to rectify, and like everyone else that screws-up, its leadership may not be completely through denial yet. Everybody can learn from this. The entire vehicle industry, not just Toyota, is rapidly [...]

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