There is one main difference between those two industrial revolutions. The second industrial revolution was all about mass production, to achieve mass productions factories used people hands. This industrial revolution is all about mass production as well (with the addition of new virtual commodities), but this time robots and algorithms are going to be the …
Second and fourth industrial revolution organizations. Read More »
Read the following quote and try to think who wrote it and when: “We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our oil and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes of human effort, which go on …
The answer in two words is NO! Organizations are a collection of people grouped to reach goals. They are doing it because as a group they can reach more than as individuals, but the goals of each group of people are entirely different. One group wants to achieve the company purpose that they, or others, …
Variety, the quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or monotony, is a critical element in Ashby’s law (AKA Law of Requisite Variety). The law is simple: “If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to …
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Organizations are critical for human success. That was true in the past; it’s true right now and will be true in the future. Collecting people together to achieve common purpose generate an emergent behavior and skillsets (properties) that unique to the group, but not to the individual in the group. Those emergent properties are what …