Two interesting items from David Smith's excellent daily feed.
If you want to get productive, get disorganised. Simon Caulkin riffs on the theme of A Perfect Mess.
Tim Oren on Burke's Law of Metadynamics:
In the course of the chat, Burke came up with approximately the following statement, which has stayed with me since:"Systems dump excess energy in the form of structure."
It may not sound like much, but it's rather profound. It essentially says that a system operating in surplus won't stay so, but instead will act to build up its own structure at the expense of the surplus. Looked at the right way, it's a nutshell explanation for the existence of life - an eruption of structure in response to excess solar energy.
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Comments (4)
What a top quote Johnnie!
August 4, 2008 09:56 Permalink for comment
Hi Johnnie,
This reminds me a nice presentation from Charles Leadbeater.
Some interesting points were:
- Give people tools, see how they us them and only then, build your business model
- The most innovative organisations (based on free collaboration) today have no headquarters and no hierarchy, they are much quicker in innovation than any big fixed rigid organisation
- Succes may lead to conservatism. If you have a history of succes, you may tend to repeat what led you to succes
- If you want to see your way into the future, act as you were a new entrant with low budgets
August 5, 2008 09:54 Permalink for comment
Love this phrase - It backs up my organisational theory of 'if in doubt, do something. Whatever you do, don't allow time or space to feel anything, who knows what would happen then'!
August 8, 2008 13:27 Permalink for comment
Hey Johnnie
"Systems dump excess energy in the form of structure."
Like it!
Very resonant with Ross Ashby's theory of "requisite variety" - that there is an optimum variety (structure) for any system and too much
produces rididity and too little constant chaos.
Heres a summary
http://www.bioteams.com/2007/10/22/the_law_of.html#more
Best Regards
Ken
http://www.bioteams.com
September 3, 2008 09:21 Permalink for comment