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#136 Complexity & Complicatedness - Sam Spurlin on playing hockey, why he quit teaching, studying at Claremont, leaving a PhD program, working pro bono too start his career, complicated vs complex systems, how to deal with ego in organizations, remote work failures, podcasting with his brother, and the importance of a retrospective meeting

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Undercurrent

It was a really interesting time of these newer firms that were tapping into the power of the internet to promote technology to work in a distributed sense. And it's helped by, you know, holocracy kind of came out around that time. Sociocracy has been around for a long time, but was becoming a little bit more popular. Basically, everybody decided like, let's figure out this org design thing. Let's better understand how to make organizations more adaptive, more human places.

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