Institution building is really a young person’s game, but older people have most of the metis needed to avoid the thousand failure modes around any precocious vision. So for an IB project to work, oldies kinda have to voluntarily play second fiddle to much younger people.
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A metafailure mode is that institutional innovation gets conflated with succumbing to grown-up bureaucratism, which is the exact opposite. Which is why people with capacity for institutional vision (as opposed to say product, program, or trend vision) are rightly wary of trying
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If your institutional visions require esoteric new processes that require a new kind of bureaucrat and training to staff, you’re doing it wrong. Almost all successful institutional innovation relies on using new tech levers to *remove* processes and eliminate bureaucrat species.
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This does not mean institutional nihilism. It’s only the destruction of the old that is planned via negativa actions. New structure will emerge in its place, “native” to the new tech media. The other half of being an institutional visionary is recognizing and curating new growth.
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The new growth curation largely involves learning to tell apart the fast-colonizing new growth that emerges after clearcutting the old, from the enduring stuff that will take a little longer to take root.
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Phase 1: strategically cut out parts of the old Phase 2: keep weeding out fast-growth colonizing processes, keeping the cleared space open Phase 3: watch for deep new growth and protect it as it displaces the weeds Phase 2 is a subtle stumbling zone.
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Kinda abstract I realize but unfortunately I can’t talk publicly about the concrete examples I’ve seen play out
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