The Problem of Mechanistic Thinking

December 31, 2025

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David interviews Blair about how businesses should be understood as complex adaptive organisms rather than simple machines.

David interviews Blair about his recent article in which he explores how our businesses are not simple machines that can be tuned (or killed) with specific wrenches, but they are complex adaptive organisms that we need to understand differently.

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