Renounce adaptation, robustness and even ‘flexibility’ in favour of ‘taking any opportunity to do things you think you could not do before’ (
Rahm Emanuel). And that means scary reinvent[...]
Nassim Taleb
Antifragile concept is perhaps one of the most attractive frames (conceptual, philosophical, practical) we have had recently. By describing antifragile as the opposite to fragile, v[...]
Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization and its new management.
There are three [...]
Nassim Taleb has written about ‘antifragile’ as the quality of ‘growing from disorder’. He says that the opposite to fragile is not robust, but antifragile.
Translation: in [...]
Nasim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization and its new management.
There are three t[...]
I owe this to
Nassim Taleb (‘Fooled by Randomness’ (2007), ‘The Black Swan’ (2008), ‘Antifragile’ (2013). As a traveller of many years through New York airport, he recalls[...]
(A similar version of this post was released out of sync with it;'s part 1. Apologies for those who got it, bjut I will duplicate with some amendments, giving its importance)
In part 1 I referred to sources that attempt to establish a threshold of[...]
In October 2013, a ship carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. 300 people drowned. As The Guardian journalist Kenan Malik put it: ‘It was not the first time that migrants had drowned in the Mediterranean. I[...]
Learning from mistakes, make mistakes, learn, it’s OK, mistakes are OK, we are human, if we did not make mistakes we would not innovate, in this company you can make mistakes, we learn, we learn, just make sure the mistake is proportionate and you [...]
This is the last one in the series of 10 Organizational Pathologies, and the longest write up. Sorry! Bear with me.
Please challenge me on this assumption if you wish, but at least follow my argument.
Managers and leaders say that they empo[...]
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t need ‘managers’ and ‘employees’, as in generals and troops.
My strong bet is for a company of entrepreneurs on the payroll. Yes, they will need to be organised, yes they will need to follow principles, but t[...]
This is a straight quote from Nassim Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile)
A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as[...]
I owe this to
Nassim Taleb (‘Fooled by Randomness’ (2007), ‘The Black Swan’ (2008), ‘Antifragile’ (2013). As a traveller of many years through New York airport, he recalls[...]
Nassim Taleb’s piece in Medium about ten months ago entitled
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority is [...]