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The Bizarre Operations Room
- Pinochet's soldiers discovered a hexagonal operations room with seven white fiberglass chairs and colorful screens.
- One soldier reportedly stabbed the displays, showing confusion and hostility toward the project's symbolism.
Organizations As Cybernetic Systems
- Stafford Beer applied cybernetics to view organizations as self-regulating intelligent systems.
- He argued management could be redesigned using feedback loops and goal-driven control principles.
Build Feedback Networks For Factories
- Connect remote production units so they can send and receive standardized data daily.
- Use constant feedback to surface shortages and predict operational problems before they escalate.