How an organisation as an open system actually works
If you've ever felt like your business is constantly reacting to a random tweet, a shift in the weather, or a sudden change in interest rates, you're basically seeing an organisation as an open system in action. It's a bit of a shift from the old-school way of thinking where a company was seen as a self-contained machine that just churned out products in a vacuum. Honestly, the idea that any business can survive by closing its doors and ignoring the outside world is pretty much a myth in the modern age. ...