Jon Smart @jon.bvssh.com · May 13 The Tortoise Trap: we confuse the behaviour of the system with the nature of the system. The more a system resembles a tortoise, the more we assume it is one. The more it resembles a cheetah, the more we treat it as one. Yet many tortoises are simply cheetahs constrained by how we treat them.
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e.g. everything planned in detail up front, 100% utilisation, high work in progress, focus on output, role silo handoffs, long lead time (tortoise). There is no space for experimentation, for trying a new idea.