Two Distinctly Different Logics of Change What prompted it is something I keep running into in organisational life: development and emergence being treated as if they described the same kind of change. They don’t. They are structurally different processes with different governing logics, and conflating them produces interventions that systematically address the wrong thing. The cost is a misdirection at the level of design. The article begins by getting that distinction right

How development is not emergence, and stages could be released Part One: Two Logics of Change What prompted it is something I keep running into in organisational life: development and emergence being treated as if they described the same kind of change. They don’t. They are structurally different processes with different governing logics, and conflating them produces interventions that systematically address the wrong thing. The cost is a misdirection at the level of design.