CHAPTER 3

Lean Uses Emergence to Extend Order

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle – they are strictly limited in number; they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.1

—A. N. Whitehead

Reflexive versus Cognitive Tactics

We affect and are affected by many others, in conduct of departmental and personal aims. We choose to forego instant gratification, untrained impulse, selfishness, tribalism, and hubris. We subscribe to composed manners to connect. Our intersections are guided on non-instinctual, abstract, mutual rules. Where this behavior prevails, novel rearrangements emerge among ...

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