Ecosystem Metaphors Every era has its stock of intuitions and metaphors. When machines and factories were the next new thing, we made movies about the inhumanity of the assembly line. That was then. What about now? Looking at the world from a distance, there are two new sources of organizational metaphors:
I just read this piece on information flow in systems that goes well with what we are saying: https://two-wrongs.com/hidden-cost-of-heroics.html