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Friday, January 18, 2019

Christopher Avery's views on Organization as a Living System.


Organizations are living systems. We can never direct a living system, only disturb it and wait to see the response. We can't know all the forces shaping an organization we wish to change, so all we can do is provoke the system in some way by experimenting with a force we think might have some impact, then watch to see what happens -- Christopher Avery's views on Organization as a Living System.

If we already have automation, what's the need for Agents?

“Automation” and “agent” sound similar — but they solve very different classes of problems. Automation = Fixed Instruction → Fixed Outcome ...