Complexity matters

S02E05 Why sociotechnical systems demand a new kind of leadership

Electrons with feelings, from machines to mycelium, skill trees and a dual track career framework

Apr 17 • 

Christophe Rosseel

9

November 2024

S02E04 Twin engines of high-performing companies: optionality and focus

Explore and exploit, 2% companies, flow means focus, introducing Kanban

Nov 5, 2024 • 

Christophe Rosseel

6

March 2023

S02E03 Machine jobs, die-hard models, and agile comedy

AI's cognitive revolution, the unholy grail of long-living teams, agile jokes and open systems research into agile limitations

Mar 13, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

4

S02E02 First principles of business agility

Getting things done in organizations, why digital transformations fail, agility vs agileᵀᴹ, cargo cults, sociotechnical systems thinking, explore …

Mar 3, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

7

February 2023

S02E01: Keeping up with the machines

Teal around the world, how to evolve monoliths, psychological safety, keeping up with the machine learning onslaught

Feb 20, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

5

S01E15 A phase transition is brewing (season finale)

Phase transitions, entropy, sociotechnical systems, the second law of thermodynamics and the third law of sci-fi

Feb 8, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

7

January 2023

S01E14 Regaining organizational consciousness

The edge of chaos, self-organized criticality, ongoing complexification, cellular automata, computation and evolution

Jan 23, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

4

S01E13 Modeling powers beyond our comprehension

Electrons with feelings, what math can predict, agent-based models, stablecoins, probabilistic forecasting & the best of the rest (the 4th age of…

Jan 13, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

4

S01E12 The superpower of computational modeling

Digital twins, complexity explorables, computational models, F1 & the best of the rest (tech debt, ChatGPT, 10 million pounds of content sludge from New…

Jan 5, 2023 • 

Christophe Rosseel

5

December 2022

S01E11 The power of modeling systems

More feedback, stock and flow diagrams, system dynamics

Dec 30, 2022 • 

Christophe Rosseel

4

S01E10 Navigating complex, adaptive systems

System mapping 101: graphs, maps, and diagrams

Dec 22, 2022 • 

Christophe Rosseel

4

S01E09 Cybernetics and the scientific discovery of feedback

Norbert Wiener, the inclusion of feedback in science, roots of complexity theory, biomimicry and biomimetics

Dec 15, 2022 • 

Christophe Rosseel

5