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- Categorisation destroys informationThe act of categorising something removes it from its context and the loss of this contextual information can lead to major failure in the future – like the global financial crisis
- Complexity requires simplicityA complex economy requires division of labour. The more specialised each individual becomes the more complexity can evolve in the group as a whole. Single cell organisms can only evolve into complex multicellular creatures if cells become specialised – each doing one particular simple task
- Order requires ChaosOrder at a higher level requires disorder beneath it. This is the opposite of the maxim “as above, so below”. Functioning markets need robust disagreement between buyers and sellers. Market crashes only happen when everyone has the same (negative) opinion.
- More of the same is differentA quantitative change becomes a qualitative change in the end. This is sometimes expressed as ‘quantity has a quality all its own’ or more simply ‘more of the same is different’
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Complexity requires simplicity

How Microsoft’s management killed innovation

Vanity Fair in July 2012 had a great article titled “Microsoft’s lost decade”. It described how the corporate giant lost its way and changed from being an indomitable technology Titan to a has-been. Just as IBM did a decade earlier. The reason? A management technique known as “stack ranking”. Every Read more…

By John Brodie Donald, 4 yearsOctober 27, 2018 ago

Biology

Catataxis applied to Biology and Life Sciences

Complexity requires simplicity

How Microsoft’s management killed innovation