by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I write an oft-repeated tale of factory with two occupants and one control mechanism.<\/strong><\/p>\n There are these urban myths. People tell a story over and over. It sounds pretty good, plausible, it could happen. Then I hear someone else in a completely different time and place tell the same story about a slighty different situation. And that is the urban myth.<\/p>\n Here is one:<\/p>\n There is this factory, a big, super-efficient humming along all day 24\/7 365 factory. There are two occupants in the factory: a man and a dog. There is one control mechanism in the factory: a big red button. If you press the big red button, the factory stops humming along. It will take days to restart the factory. The man has one purpose: feed the dog. The dog has one purpose: prevent the man from pressing the big red button.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I never said the story was cute or funny, so if you didn’t grin or anything that is okay.<\/p>\n As with most urban myths, there are a few things we can learn from this one. Here are a few:<\/p>\n It is simple to stop a group of people that is working well. Just one well-meaning person arrives and does something, like pressing a big red button, and the group plunges into chaos.<\/p>\n It is simple to prevent someone from disrupting a group of people that is working well.<\/p>\n We usually don’t like to put a protection person between a group of people that is working well and anyone who might arrive and disrupt them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I could continue with lessons, but three is enough for one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I write an oft-repeated tale of factory with two occupants and one control mechanism. There are these urban myths. People tell a story over and over. It sounds pretty good, plausible, it could happen. Then I hear someone else in a completely different time and place tell the same story about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-systems-thinking","tag-general-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}