Seabirds, guano, and healthy reefs: remove one, and the entire food chain suffers. We ignore interconnectedness at our peril.
FO Take · Score 86
The delusion of isolated impact plagues modern work. Leaders imagine changes in one department won't ripple through the entire organisation. This study proves such thinking catastrophic. Every cog, every creature, every intern affects the whole. Disconnect the seabirds, and the fish starve. When will we learn organisations are ecologies, not machines?
The strongest counter
Attributing systemic collapse to a single variable is simplistic. Complex systems fail due to multiple, interacting pressures, not just one removed element. Focus on resilience, not single points of failure.
