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Mountain beyond Mountains

by sravan ankaraju on January 23, 2010

in Execution

One of my favorite books is “Mountain beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder. With Haiti’s earthquake and human tragedy, let me share the quotes I captured from the book – There is a difference between managing wealth and managing health. Farmer denounced all ideologies, including his own, at least a little. “It’s an ology, after all,” [...]

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Are we incapable of complexity?

by sravan ankaraju on November 7, 2009

in Integrated Thinking

The flaw with the simplicity/complexity is that it gives the impression that it about making a binary choice – but simplicity and complexity are not polar opposites. In fact, making something “simpler” is often a case of relocating complexity, rather than eliminating it. For example, from the driver’s perspective, a manual-shift transmission is more complex [...]

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