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...p. An intentional change management process helps make sure that the team keeps laminar flow and doesn't get into turbulent flow. When a team is in turbulent flow, the shared OODA loop diffuses. It takes focus and stability to get a coherent ...
...sonance You create just superficial progress. Underneath is turbulent flow, not laminar flow. In turbulent flow nothing of value coheres.
...ts make you much less efficient, making it impossible to have the smoothness of laminar flow. How to handle it: Think through the worst possible scenario and make a plan for what to do if it happens. A break glass plan. Then, stop thinking ab...
...c eddy currents trying to get your bearings quickly. It's easier to stay in the laminar flow with the system.
...e, you end up confusing people, creating eddy currents. Some situations require laminar flow for things to cohere.
... you split them apart they can go faster at their natural pace. Smooth is fast. Laminar flow is orders of magnitude faster and easier than turbulent flow.
Sustaining innovations are laminar flow. Disruptive innovations create turbulent flow. Chaos. Impossible to see through the cloud of uncertainty. Once you get to the other side it will feel...
...important about a stream is the flow, the currents, the eddies and vortices and laminar flows. A system that can get magic to emerge out of ordinary components is itself magical. That takes judgment and insight and open-endedness. A system th...
...izing you're nudging them at all. This is why recurring 1:1s are great. Smooth, laminar flow, the lightest touch of adjustments.
... go with the flow. This increases efficiency overall (fewer eddy currents, more laminar flow), but like any increase in efficiency, it makes the system better at doing what it currently does... at the cost of making it less able to change wha...
...eddy currents of possibility. Swirls of coordination costs. Instead of focused, laminar flow, you get turbulent flow. It's much harder for anything to cohere and then be built on top of.
... zone of proximal development. All of your mental energy goes straight into the laminar flow of your development, not the swirling chaos of everyday distraction. What does 'excel' mean? Excel means to push beyond the baseline. The baseline is...
At a critical threshold, laminar flow decoheres into turbulent flow. Turbulent flow is chaotic, it's many orders of magnitude less efficient than laminar flow. The threshold between the t...