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Nature is not random - what appears at first glance to be messy has deep order. This wonderful video reveals much of this. HT Will Pate.
But we tend to organize with no sense of order. That is why so many of our organizations are so dysfunctional.
Take school - what is the theory behind class size? There is none except to have smaller. But no one in Education knows anything about the natural organization of human groups. You will see these numbers in the first minutes of the video.
Why is there bullying in schools? It is not because kids are bad - it is that schools violate the social norms of numbers. Ask a teacher or a Dept of Ed person what are the key social numbers that will ensure that a school will be bully free and they will look at you blankly - they don't know and they dont know that such numbers exist - but they do and have been used fro ever in the military.
All those Social Media "Experts" pushing to have thousands of "friends" It's pathetic. Based on what? They simply think that more = better. What losers! There has to be a numeric structure or its not natural. What is it? It's the same as for all social structures for humans - watch the video carefully.
All those that want to have better functioning organizations of all types - what is your structural plan? Oh yes spans of control! Based on what? Bullshit.
What has happened is that we organize as the Ptolemaic universe was organized - we have a wrong theory (Then that the Earth was the centre of the universe) and we force the world into this fallacy.
The Copernican Revolution of our time (That the Sun is in the Centre of the local system) is that humans are optimally organized as nature intended. That we are designed to live in a Fibonacci sequence where:
8 is the core unit of intimacy
34 is the optimal team to get complex work done
144 is the upper limit of any group that can function in a trust bond
These are the building blocks of trust and high functioning for all humans no matter what culture. They are our nature - as immutable as the laws of light and gravity. We ignore them at our peril.
