Clay Shirky, the author of one of the best books I’ve read on the transformation of our lives by social tools, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations says he writes about “Systems where having good participants produces better results than having good planners.”
That helps me express what floats my boat.
I am driven to explore systems where having good process produces better results than having good participants or good planners.
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