Transparency. It’s difficult to overstate the degree to which Evolutionary Organizations value and practice transparency. In complexity, as McChrystal and the teams inside JSOC discovered, insight can come from anywhere, but only if information reaches the right person at the right time. Because we can’t predict when that will be, we have to aspire to what economists refer to as information symmetry—a condition in which all relevant information is known to all participants. This is a continuation and expansion of earlier concepts such as open-book management, in which employees have access to
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