Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.