Posts Tagged ‘Failure’

Failures of Complex Societies

Posted on September 13, 2021, 8:15 am, by Bill Rouse, under Challenges, Change.

Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking, 2004) provide compelling evidence for how complex societies fail.  I am not going to rigorously follow their analyses.  However, I am going to leverage their insights into the sources of […]

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Understanding Organizational Failure

Posted on January 2, 2019, 4:29 pm, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Challenges.

When do organizations fail?  It is typically when their financials go south.  Their deficits are unsustainable.  Cash is draining from the enterprise.  Their strategies for stemming the tide are too little, too late.  Why do organizations fail?  What causes these financial outcomes? The story that led to these consequences almost always started playing out much […]

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