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Resilience: How We Can Learn to Bounce Forward

Leading Blog

They discuss tight feedback loops, dynamic reorganization, built-in countermechanisms, decoupling, diversity, modularity, simplicity, swarming, and clustering, as proactive ways to encourage resilience. Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.) Resilience-thinking is not the same thing as being in a defensive mode.

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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term

Harvard Business Review

Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). By using the culture concept, we tend to artificially ossify the diverse, complex, and constantly changing social environment that is any organization.