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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

COMPLEXITY

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The Law of Prerequisite Variety

An entrenched culture in an organization can be very difficult to change as new measures are actively or passively resisted. Ashby, who was a British silver, a mathematician from the middle of the 20th century, one of his contributions was a law of requisite variety. And it's not trivial to either increase the variety of disorganizations or decrease the variety of that which they are trying to control.

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