What enclosure meant, the first time Between the 15th and 19th centuries, the English commons — shared land where villagers had grazed animals, gathered wood, and fished for centuries — were systematically

Waiting as failure Modern culture has organized an elaborate attack on waiting. Every queue is a problem to be solved. Every delay is a friction to be eliminated. Instant delivery, same-day shipping, real-time

The problem with the tree We draw organizations as trees. The CEO at the root, branches narrowing into departments, leaves at the periphery doing the actual photosynthesis. The tree is a beautiful metaphor