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S2 Ep. 5 Dave Snowden – Building Scalable Organizations that can Deal with Uncertainty

Boundaryless Conversations Podcast

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The Importance of Coherence in Complexity

I think people get too head up about motivation. I might create a series of heuristics about the way we work and create teaching stories based on people's own experience around them. And that type of approach has considerable fluidity in it. One of the key principles in complexity is called coherence. So for example, evolutionary biologists have radical agreements. People like Richard Dawkins has very little support from any geneticist I know. On the other hand, young earth creationists are incoherent to the truth. They have no coherent theory, so you can dismiss there's no point in having a conversation with them.

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