Ideas

Ideas for seeing organisations more clearly.

Questions, arguments, and observations from Risk Worth Taking.

01

Organisations are social systems disguised as process systems

Organisations are social systems disguised as process systems.

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02

AI isn't creating new organisational weaknesses. It's exposing them faster

AI isn't creating new organisational weaknesses. It's reducing the time available before those weaknesses become visible.

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03

The most important system in your organisation isn't written down

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The most important system in any organisation is the one that isn't written down.

04

The organisation gets less time to misunderstand itself

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AI accelerates the arrival of organisational consequences.

05

Policy is not capability

In development

Stating an intention does not create the ability to act on it.

06

Participation and accountability are not the same thing

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Being involved is not the same as owning the consequences.

07

You can't control something you haven't seen

In development

Visibility comes before control.

08

AI is the lens. The organisation is the subject

In development

The value of the AI conversation is what it reveals about the organisation.