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Paul Marshall's avatar

Love this piece of applying Wardly Mapping to hiring expectations (Could have been cynefin as well). This way of thinking and clarifying expectations, looking into a job and matching with candidates can unlock a lot of human potential! Also love the way you frame the status-quo as bias for problem simplicity.

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Swag Valance's avatar

I love Wardley Mapping, and I like how you cleverly used the horizontal axis to express commonality of context. But the real heart of this question is in the Cynefin wheelhouse.

What you have is thinking rooting in the complicated domain, seeing an analyst or expert to fix their problems. But instead of benefiting from a second opinion like a physician, you're in a complex domain that requires emergent practices: it's about learning and adapting, not "knowing" ahead of time.

It's this problem space edge that throws the entire Hero-Worship-Media-Industrial-Complex (Inc., Fast Company, etc.) into laughable territory. Knowing what Steve Jobs ate for breakfast and how Elon Musk makes decisions is an emulation economy that presumes commodity problems and contexts. There the fool's answer is to cargo cult your way to success.

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