82,891
edits
Something for the weekend, sir?: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
*Permanent versus ephemeral | *Permanent versus ephemeral | ||
A running theme in the [[JC]] is the distinction between top-down and bottom-up models of organisation. We are increasingly becoming obsessed with [[modernism]] as a prevailing dogma, about which few people talk directly, though there is much talk ''obliquely'' — John Kay’s {{br|Obliquity}}, for example. But [[systems theory]], [[complexity theory]], even, for all its obsession with algorithms, [[evolutionary theory]] line up with pragmatism: | A running theme in the [[JC]] is the distinction between top-down and bottom-up of organisation models. The former — we call them “[[modernist]]” — view organisations as complicated machines, controlled from a homunculus sitting at the bridge of some kind of [[Cartesian theatre]]. Form determines function; the better regimented and disciplined the components of your contraption, the better able it will navigate the market. The latter seems the organisation as an organic response to the market: a suppurating, sticky, fetid mess, forever shape-shifting into new configurations in unexpected, and expectable, ways. Practical control can only live at the points where the organisation comes into contact with its ecosystem. The central control panel provides dispositional, aspirational suggestions for how the firm should react; but real decision making is done at the edges, not the middle. | ||
We are increasingly becoming obsessed with [[modernism]] as a prevailing dogma, about which few people talk directly, though there is much talk ''obliquely'' — John Kay’s {{br|Obliquity}}, for example. But [[systems theory]], [[complexity theory]], even, for all its obsession with algorithms, [[evolutionary theory]] line up with pragmatism: | |||
====The illusion of permanence and the Ship of Theseus==== | ====The illusion of permanence and the Ship of Theseus==== | ||