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While "community" is a powerful concept, especially for grassroots movements and shared value systems, it might not be the most efficient model for all purposes, especially when scalability, adaptability, and clear accountability are required. Instead, thinking in terms of "networks" or "ecosystems" might offer a more flexible and scalable approach. These paradigms emphasize connectivity, collaboration, and co-evolution, which might be better suited for systemic innovation and decentralized movements Doug Smith's notion of "change" primarily occurring within purpose-driven networks aligns with the understanding that networks can be more effective in driving change, especially when they are built around a shared purpose. Purpose-driven networks are agile and adaptive, which can be especially valuable in rapidly changing environments. By having a clear purpose, these networks can maintain focus and drive towards specific outcomes, e...

  Throughput Economics is a business management philosophy proposed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It focuses on improving system throughput or the rate at which a business generates money through sales. The main principles of Throughput Economics are: The goal of a business should be to maximize throughput or revenue while minimizing inventory and operating expenses. This is in contrast to traditional methods that focus on maximizing utilization or efficiency of resources. Throughput is limited by constraints in the system, so efforts should focus on identifying and eliminating these constraints rather than overall efficiency. Inventory and operating expenses provide no value to the system and should be reduced. Inventory covers up problems and excessive operating expenses waste money. Operational measurements and decisions should be based on their impact on throughput, inventory, and operating expense, not utilization and efficiency metrics. Adopting an ongoing process of identifying an...

Organizations today face increasingly complex and uncertain environments. Traditional centralized, linear approaches to organizational change are falling short. Leaders need new ways to enable change and innovation. Emergence offers an alternative model for change based on principles of complexity science. Emergence is the process where new solutions and innovations arise from local interactions between diverse agents in a system. Think of how an ant colony builds intricate nests through simple individual ant behaviors. Or how new social movements can rapidly gain momentum through individual sharing on social platforms. Leaders cannot predict or control emergence. However, they can set conditions to influence the potential for beneficial emergence. Six "change dials" allow leaders to tune the conditions: diversity of views, drive for fitness, connectivity, safety, edge of chaos, and autonomy. As connections between diverse agents in a system increase, a type of co...