{"id":15,"date":"2025-07-05T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rkz.otu.mybluehost.me\/website_1ce6c7cd\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:48:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Adaptive Organisation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI, complexity science, and the future of work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A weekly publication for leaders who want to think more clearly about AI \u2014 using the lens of complex adaptive systems theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-88 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai-and-society tag-ai-strategy tag-artificial-intelligence tag-bounded-rationality tag-decision-making tag-herbert-simon tag-satisficing\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/bounded-rationality-ai-confidently-wrong\/\" target=\"_self\" >Bounded Rationality: Why More AI Makes Your Organisation Confidently Wrong, Not Smarter<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In 2014, Amazon built an experimental hiring tool. Feed it a stack of resumes, and it would score each candidate from one to five stars. The model was trained on ten years of the company&#8217;s own recruitment data. It had more information, more processing power, and more historical depth than any human recruiter could bring&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-07T09:00:00+00:00\">September 7, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-86 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai-and-society tag-ai-strategy tag-complex-adaptive-systems tag-cybernetics tag-feedback-loops tag-stafford-beer tag-systems-thinking\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/feedback-loops-ai-investments-compounding-collapsing\/\" target=\"_self\" >Feedback Loops: Why Your AI Investments Are Either Compounding or Collapsing<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Every AI investment your organisation makes is on one of two paths. Either it is compounding, gathering data and capability in a self-reinforcing spiral that grows harder for competitors to match. Or it is collapsing, oscillating between overreaction and correction, burning capital without converging on anything useful. The difference between these outcomes is not the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-31T09:00:00+00:00\">August 31, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-83 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai-and-society tag-ai-strategy tag-complex-adaptive-systems tag-decision-making tag-innovation tag-organisational-learning\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/explore-exploit-dilemma-ai-strategy\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Explore-Exploit Dilemma: Why Your AI Strategy Can&#8217;t Decide Whether to Search or Settle<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In 2000, Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster declined. The decision looked reasonable at the time. Blockbuster had more than 9,000 stores, 84,000 employees, and a business model that worked. Netflix was a loss-making startup mailing DVDs. Why buy the problem child when you own the category? Blockbuster spent the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-24T09:00:00+00:00\">August 24, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-94 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai-and-society tag-ai-adoption tag-complex-adaptive-systems tag-decision-making tag-information-cascades tag-monoculture tag-requisite-variety\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/information-cascades-ai-adoption-convergence\/\" target=\"_self\" >Information Cascades: Why Your AI Adoption Is Converging on Everyone Else&#8217;s<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Two restaurants sit on the same street. One is packed. The other is empty. You walk past both and your own information is ambiguous. You haven&#8217;t eaten at either, and the online reviews are mixed. So you join the queue at the full one. Not because you know it&#8217;s better, but because the crowd&#8217;s choice&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-17T09:00:00+00:00\">August 17, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-79 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai-and-society tag-ai-adoption tag-ai-strategy tag-co-evolution tag-competitive-dynamics tag-complex-adaptive-systems tag-organisational-change tag-red-queen-hypothesis\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenonlinear.org\/website_1ce6c7cd\/red-queen-effect-ai-strategy-running-nowhere\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Red Queen Effect: Why Your AI Strategy Is Running Faster but Going Nowhere<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Pick any SaaS category in 2024. CRM platforms. Helpdesk tools. 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