About this episode
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.
People in this episode
Host: David
Guest: Blair
Topics covered
- mechanistic thinking
- business complexity
- adaptive organisms
- business understanding
- organizational theory
Keywords
- mechanistic thinking
- business
- complexity
- adaptive organisms
- interview
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