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The Coherent Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

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To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology

Harvard Business Review

Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Any organization of any size can develop faster, more effective, cheaper solutions to problems by challenging its people. Department of Defense now uses challenges to develop better weapons systems. Redundancy.