Robert Paterson is in the toppest-of-top form today in his entry Unjobbing. A few snippets:
All the rules of the old culture are based on the assumptions that the most important activity is control. The extension of this assumption is that if only we tried hard enough we could control everything. This illusion seemed to work when we did not operate in a global society. But when we began to operate in a global economy the complexity of controlling everything has overwhelmed us. As we talk about being more responsive, more customer-focused and more flexible, let
