{"product_id":"metaphors-we-live-by-book-vii-control-order-uncertainty-9798199012768","title":"Metaphors We Live By: Book VII: Control, Order, \u0026 Uncertainty","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tele\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook VII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMetaphors We Live By: Control, Order, \u0026amp; Uncertainty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery system is built on an assumption that the future will cooperate.\u003cbr\u003eIt rarely does.\u003cbr\u003ePlans outlive the conditions that made them sensible.\u003cbr\u003eRules survive the problems they were written to solve.\u003cbr\u003eMetrics replace the goals they were designed to measure.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the people inside these systems adapt.\u003cbr\u003eNot to reality, but to the system's version of it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMetaphors We Live By: Control, Order, \u0026amp; Uncertainty is a collection of forty essays examining how systems shape behavior, why order tends to become its own purpose, and what happens when the structures built to eliminate uncertainty produce it instead.\u003cbr\u003eInside, you will explore: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy plans become identity long after they stop describing reality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow metrics quietly replace the goals they were built to serve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the person who maintains the broken machine is invisible until they leave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow efficiency removes exactly the slack that resilience requires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy information arrives at the top already translated into what people wanted to hear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat systems optimize for when no one is watching the incentives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a management framework.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a theory of organizational failure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a series of observations about the gap between how systems are designed and how they actually behave. And why that gap is so difficult to see from inside.\u003cbr\u003eFor those who work inside institutions.\u003cbr\u003eOr who have wondered why changing the people never seems to change the system.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968925941911,"sku":"9798199012768","price":1534.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199012768.webp?v=1782919860","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/metaphors-we-live-by-book-vii-control-order-uncertainty-9798199012768","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}