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When More Is Not Better

by Roger L. Martin
🎧 27 min listen Career & Business

America's economy is broken - and optimizing its pieces is making it worse.

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Chapter 1 Optimizing every part of a complex system independently make…

Optimizing every part of a complex system independently makes the whole system worse, not better. America's economy is a complex adaptive system - not…

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When More Is Not Better
Roger Martin argues that America's pursuit of perfection
in every economic component has produced a deeply
imperfect whole. Drawing on complexity science and decades
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