Stanley McChrystal Quotes

Humans Are Great Optimizers. We Look At Everything Around Us, Whether A Cow, A House, Or A Share Portfolio, And Ask Ourselves How We Can Manage It To Get The Best Return. Our Modus Operandi Is To Break The Things We're Managing Down Into Its Component Parts And Understand How Each Part Functions And What Inputs Will Yield The Greatest Outputs . . . [but] The More You Optimize Elements Of A Complex System Of Humans And Nature For Some Specific Goal, The More You Diminish That System's Resilience. A Drive For Efficient Optimal State Outcome Has The Effect Of Making The Total System More Vulnerable To Shocks And Disturbances.

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