Beer Game
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June 27th, 2022
prepping for Superorganism Salon › fragments for presentation › shift from "opinion" to "perspective" › #blogpost idea sorta / #vacuum - a better case study / pa…
- (Beer Game feels vaguely relevant here, tho it's on a diff level maybe)
September 16th, 2021
- real-world Beer Game example, via Sarah McManus
August 15th, 2021
- M > yeah, Beer Game as another source of non-empathetic perspective-taking
The Fifth Discipline
- Lessons of the Beer Game (page 40)
- Lesson 1 - Structure Influences Behavior
- Different people in the same structure tend to produce qualitatively similar results.
- When there are problems, or performance fails to live up to what is intended, it is easy to find someone or something to blame.
- But, more often than we realize, systems cause their own crises, not external forces or individuals' mistakes.
- Lesson 2 - Structure in Human Systems is Subtle
- We tend to think of "structure" as external constraints on the individual. But, structure in complex living systems, such as the "structure" of the multiple "systems" in a human body (for example, the cardiovascular and neuromuscular) means the basic interrelationships that control behavior.
- In human systems, structure includes how people make decisions—the "operating policies" whereby we translate perceptions, goals, rules, and norms into actions.
- Lesson 3 - Leverage Often Comes from New Ways of Thinking
- In human systems, people often have potential leverage that they do not exercise because they focus only on their own decisions and ignore how their decisions affect others.
- In the Beer Game, players have it in their power to eliminate the extreme instabilities that invariably occur, but they fail to do so because they do not understand how they are creating the instability in the first place.