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FIELD NOTE #060 | The Paradox Required Navigation
The Paradox Required Navigation | Why Management Keeps Demanding a Solution
Why do familiar organisational tensions return, even after a decision has been made? The answer may lie in how the problem was framed.
Speed and reliability, central control and local autonomy, immediate performance and future capability can place legitimate demands on the same system. Choosing one may settle the immediate decision without removing the conditions that produced the tension.
This episode examines the distinction between a solvable problem, a genuine trade-off and an organisational paradox: a persistent…
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