Etiqueta: organization

  • Exception Handling in Organizations

    Exception Handling in Organizations

    While continuously refining roles and information flows in an organization, covering the regular and non-erroneous situations is usually a handful. Nonetheless, dynamic scenarios and anomalies are a regular thing for most companies and, as a consequence, they end up being handled ad-hoc. Or not handled at all. In programming, when…

  • Anti-fragility and organizations

    Anti-fragility and organizations

    I’ve recently been digging through systems theory, and coincidentally came across the wonderful concept of anti-fragility. Originally proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb it refers to how certain systems not only withstand disruptions but actually thrive and grow stronger as a result of them. While mathematical in its foundation, it’s intuitive…