Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"
O'Reilly
Why leaders watch it
Explains why complex systems run near the edge of failure and how pressures shape safety, useful for anyone running operations.
Richard Cook's short Velocity 2013 talk on resilience in complex adaptive systems, arguing systems operate near the edge of failure and that the surprise is how rarely they fail. He presents a model of how pressures push systems toward failure boundaries.
Takeaways
- Systems operate near the edge of failure
- Surprise is how rarely things fail
- Pressures steadily push work toward boundaries
Topics: Failure, safety & learning orgs, Systems thinking & complexity
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