The Antifragile Organization

In this essay I explore what Nassim Taleb’s thinking about systems, randomness and fragility vs. antifragility means for organizations. I am going to introduce you to his ideas and outline how they impacted my thinking about organizations and what we can learn from them about organizational design. Then, I am going to present the core concepts of Frederic Laloux’s work. He examined several organizations that operate with a set of totally different procedures than most organizations today. Procedures that, I argue, can help organizations to decrease their fragility and even put them in a better position to benefit from antifragility.

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