X : Are pioneers scouts and town planners soldiers?
Me : Eh? Oh, the Galef book?
X : Yes
Me : No
X : No, what?
Me : We're all a bit scout and a bit soldier i.e pioneers, settlers and town planners have a bit of both. It's the soldier aspect that helps build inertia to change ...
Me : Eh? Oh, the Galef book?
X : Yes
Me : No
X : No, what?
Me : We're all a bit scout and a bit soldier i.e pioneers, settlers and town planners have a bit of both. It's the soldier aspect that helps build inertia to change ...
... that can be both positive and negative i.e. inertia when something has changed (i.e. shifted from product to utility) is bad but inertia before it is ready to change can be good.
X : So, it's not simple?
Me : Not in the way you describe. As for the book, I haven't read it.
X : So, it's not simple?
Me : Not in the way you describe. As for the book, I haven't read it.
X : Can you explain more?
Me : Sure. Pioneers scout the world of the adjacent possible, of course when they find something that is useful they tend to build up inertia to change, become settled in their beliefs ... this is where you need settlers to take over. But ...
Me : Sure. Pioneers scout the world of the adjacent possible, of course when they find something that is useful they tend to build up inertia to change, become settled in their beliefs ... this is where you need settlers to take over. But ...
,,, pioneers will resist that, they will build up a bit of soldier mentality to protect their belief. When your settlers do take over, they scout around the fitness of the thing, make it more useful, develop the product. But as it evolves, they too build up inertia to change ...
... you'll need town planners to wrestle the product away from the settlers (who will be in full on soldier mode with practices and beliefs etc) in order to turn it into a commodity. That will require scouting out all sorts of mindsets around operational capability etc etc ...
... so each of them have a bit of both, it's just the nature of it changes i.e. pioneeers deal with the adjacent unexplored, the highly uncertain. settler improve the fitness of something whilst town planners industrialise the pre-existing ...
... I suspect all three atitudes will require a bit of scouting, a bit of soldering and the balance between them will vary over time.
X : So, pioneers aren't scouts?
Me : I'd guess that sometimes they are, sometimes they are soldiers and other times a bit of both.
X : So, pioneers aren't scouts?
Me : I'd guess that sometimes they are, sometimes they are soldiers and other times a bit of both.
X : You don't like the Scout / Soldier metaphor?
Me : I'm not objecting to the book, it certainly seems an interesting idea. I'm challenging your assumption that pioneers are scouts, town planners are soldiers.
Me : I'm not objecting to the book, it certainly seems an interesting idea. I'm challenging your assumption that pioneers are scouts, town planners are soldiers.
X : How can town planners be scouts?
Me : Town planning is all about volume operations and minimising deviation. It's what world of six sigma where every failure is an opportunity to refine and improve the process but it's also not a place of random experimentation ...
Me : Town planning is all about volume operations and minimising deviation. It's what world of six sigma where every failure is an opportunity to refine and improve the process but it's also not a place of random experimentation ...
,,, because so much is known, defined and has been done before.
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