{"id":3627,"date":"2010-12-05T20:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2010-12-05T20:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T20:31:36","slug":"simplification-for-strategic-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3627","title":{"rendered":"Simplification for Strategic Leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember this<\/a> much ridiculed visual monstrosity?:<\/p>\n

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Excessively complex representations, much less\u00a0the bureaucratic\u00a0systems in practice, are poor vehicles for efficient communication of strategic conceptualizations to the uninformed – such as those downstream\u00a0who must labor to execute such designs. Or those targeted by them for help or harm. \u00a0In addition to the difficulty in ascertaining prioritization, the unnaturally rigid\u00a0complexity of the bureaucracy generally prevents an efficient focus of the system’s resources and latent power. The system gets in it’s own way while eating ever growing amounts of resources to produce less and less, leading to paralysis and collapse.<\/p>\n

Does it have to?<\/p>\n

Here’s an interesting, very brief take on analytical simplification from a natural scientist and network theorist Dr. Eric Berlow<\/strong> on how to cull simplification – and thus an advantage – out of complex systems by applying an ecological paradigm.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive simplification will be a critical strategic tool <\/a>in the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember this much ridiculed visual monstrosity?: Excessively complex representations, much less\u00a0the bureaucratic\u00a0systems in practice, are poor vehicles for efficient communication of strategic conceptualizations to the uninformed – such as those downstream\u00a0who must labor to execute such designs. Or those targeted by them for help or harm. \u00a0In addition to the difficulty in ascertaining prioritization, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,216,527,46,119,487,24,20,327,9,346,126,113,37,25,78,336,47,462,376,14,380,562,422,436,522,200,263,32,268,558,381,127,451,13,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-academia","category-afghanistan","category-analytic","category-attention","category-brain","category-cognition","category-coin","category-complex-systems","category-complexity","category-connectivity","category-counterinsurgency","category-framing","category-futurism","category-horizontal-thinking","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-intelligence","category-metacognition","category-network-theory","category-networks","category-organizations","category-perception","category-powerpoint","category-psychology","category-questions","category-recommended-viewing","category-scenario","category-science","category-social-networks","category-social-science","category-society","category-strategy","category-ted","category-theory","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}