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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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Is There a Complexity in Organizational Behavior?

An organization is much more like the weather, he says. It's a probabilistic system as opposed to a deterministic system. And if you are trying to bring complicated mindsets and interventions to a complex system, things you don't expect are going to happen. So I think what we really try to do is bring that mindset, that understanding that we need to interact and experiment with this system in order to change it.

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