ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND ANTIFRAGILE ORGANIZATIONS
It's extremely important to think of populations and organizations as adaptive systems.
When you make a new policy, what matters is not what the policy intends to achieve, but how the population adapts to it.
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It's extremely important to think of populations and organizations as adaptive systems.
When you make a new policy, what matters is not what the policy intends to achieve, but how the population adapts to it.
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2/ In management, it's critical to understand that your team is an adaptive system: they adapt to their workplace and to your actions.
Skills & motivations are largely an adaptation to the work environments in which they work (or worked).
Skills & motivations are largely an adaptation to the work environments in which they work (or worked).
3/ This is why, for example, as a manager you want to take decisions not just for their immediate effect but for the behaviors that they make more likely in the future.
(example in the next tweet)
(example in the next tweet)
4/ For example, if an employee comes to you with "I got another offer, I want a raise to say" and you accept his ultimatum, 2 things happen:
- He remains
- Everyone learns that fishing for offers is how you get raises
The latter is the adaptation of the team to its environment
- He remains
- Everyone learns that fishing for offers is how you get raises
The latter is the adaptation of the team to its environment
5/ Over the long term, how the team adapted will matter more than the direct outcome of that one-time decision.
6/ Similarly, for many policies, what matters over the long term is not what the policy did but how the population adapted.
Think about prohibitionism.
Think about prohibitionism.
7/ Hence the importance of understanding Adaptive Systems.
This is why in February I ran a course on the topic. It just ended yesterday.
Reviews were great.
This is why in February I ran a course on the topic. It just ended yesterday.
Reviews were great.
8/ However, most questions received during the course were about the following topic: "how do I make my organization more antifragile"?
Hence, I decided to run a new edition of the course, adapting its content to answer this specific question.
Hence, I decided to run a new edition of the course, adapting its content to answer this specific question.
9/ I've launched it last week on my mailing list, and I almost filled all the places. Hence I just opened a second cohort, in May.
Only two places left for the April edition and nine for the May edition.
Contents at the link below 👇
Luca-dellanna.com/antifragile-or…
Only two places left for the April edition and nine for the May edition.
Contents at the link below 👇
Luca-dellanna.com/antifragile-or…
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