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Technical solutions fare poorly where improvement is dependent on a change in culture, traditional norms, or a shift in people’s habits.

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Just as in nature, everyone in the organization depends on each other to thrive. By everyone following their process, everyone’s life is ultimately going to be better.

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The cure [to dependencies] is lateral, cross-functional connectivity, peer-to-peer and team-to-team.

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When you declare your dependence on others, they usually agree to help.

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Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another.

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Speed and interdependence together mean that any given action in any given time frame is now linked to vastly more potential outcomes than the same action a century or even a few decades ago…

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…the world in which [digitally native children] will grow up is not just marginally different from that of previous generations; it is vastly faster and more interdependent, and thus essentially complex in entirely new ways.

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Functioning safely in an interdependent environment requires that every team possess a holistic understanding of the interaction between all the moving parts. Everyone has to see the system in its entirety for the plan to work.

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…when creating an interactive product, confining specialists to a silo [is] stupid: high-level success depend[s] on low-level inefficiencies.

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…in a domain characterized by interdependence and unknowns, contextual understanding is key; whatever efficiency is gained through silos is outweighed by the costs of ‘interface failures.’

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