- Have you experienced efforts to simplify which have led to overly-simplistic solutions?
- Has your company mapped the interconnected nature of its business problems?
- Just as we have human consciousness, can an organization have consciousness?
- If yes, what does organizational consciousness mean to you?
Nice article, and I also like your questions, short answers
1: yes, that's what people and media calls "life", see "space" or "nuclear": truth vs. ideas;
2: I had to do it all the time with my systems, and lost my job because of that;
3: Should. Very much. But as individuals, we all fight against that, see Pink Floyd: The Wall;
4: Transparency and flexibility of structure and adult participants. None of them is popular or visible today.
I would only extend it with some of mine.
Business does not seek simplicity for implementing anything, but to convince others that it is the best, because that sells. Customers should buy the thing, not to understand it. That may be it a mobile phone or the business "plan" (see motivated reasoning) of the next startup company. You can't "sell" a solution if the buyer should learn in order to understand and compare it, because they feel uncomfortable with learning.
Personal experience, all the time.
Are we stupid then, because we complicate the things? Or simply we don't want to see the answer, and complicate it because that is an escape from the inevitable bad news? This is the natural operation of the human brain, and only exceptional people can handle it. However, these exceptional people have created the backbone of a global technical civilization, and to protect our planet from the natural side effects, we would need more that cave age politics and customer hordes.
Darwin is never about individuals but complete species, and works fine on homo... er... "sapiens", too.
My profession and passion is "applied philosophy".
I create complex sentences of simple words, that reveal the structure of the situation and therefore, give paths to the solution (be it a social or an IT task). I consider myself an adult - though I don't see adults among the famous people today. Of course, my words don't "sell well", but I don't care, I get enough money by solving "impossible problems" most of the time. I like your approach, and wish the best to the child in you - but growing up can also be fun! :-)
Tiny samples (of 800+ unread or quickly forgotten articles):
http://hajnalvilag.blogspot.hu/2015/05/a-prayer-for-human-mind.html
http://hajnalvilag.hu/projects/TasteOfLuck.pdf
Or here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-destroy-civilization-lorand-kedves
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writing-source-code-evil-lorand-kedves
For heavy lifters:
http://hajnalvilag.hu/books/MondoAurora_en.pdf
Have fun!
