E como se minimiza o risco das consequências das decisões tomadas? (parte II)

Parte I.
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E como se minimiza o risco das consequências das decisões tomadas?
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Permitindo que a empresa não fique demasiado dependente das decisões tomadas. Permitindo que a empresa tenha folga para falhar.

"Virtually all of our contemporary institutions – firms, educational institutions and government – have been designed as push systems. While these systems tend to prosper in highly stable times, they do very poorly in times of rapid change and growing uncertainty. They become highly vulnerable to Black Swans, setting cascades and avalanches into motion that amplify and extend the disruptive effects of the initial event. By seeking to remove unpredictability, we are actually becoming more fragile. As Taleb observes: “When you are fragile, you depend on things following the exact planned course, with as little deviation as possible – for deviations are more harmful than helpful. This is why the fragile needs to be very predictive in its approach, and, conversely, predictive systems cause fragility.”
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One consequence of the Big Shift in the global economy is that push-based systems become increasingly dysfunctional and even dangerous. It’s one of the key reasons why we are seeing sustained deterioration in corporate performance – both in terms of profitability and ultimately even survival. The answer is not to suppress the increasing randomness that accompanies the Big Shift. Instead, we need to craft systems that can grow and improve in the face of randomness and to pursue approaches that will help us to thrive in such systems.

Sem folga para falhar fica-se sem graus de liberdade. Com folga, há tempo para experimentar sem a pressão do tempo e dos resultados. Com folga, tem-se a liberdade para falhar...

"What does Taleb mean by this? He basically means pursuing a bimodal strategy: play it safe in some areas to mitigate the potential impact of negative Black Swans while at the same time taking a lot of small risks in other areas to enhance the benefit of positive Black Swans. Above all, he cautions against playing in the middle – we need to be both aggressive and paranoid in carefully selected areas while avoiding the complacency that the deceptive middle produces.

E este discurso de Taleb é muito parecido com o de Beinhocker:

“Typical strategic planning processes focus on chopping down the branches of the strategic decision tree, eliminating options, and making choices and commitments. In contrast, an evolutionary approach to strategy emphasizes creating choices, keeping options open, and making the tree of possibilities as bushy as possible at any point in time. Options have value. An evolving portfolio of strategic experiments gives the management team more choices, which means better odds that some of the choices will be right” … “The objective is to be able to make lots of small bets, and only make big bets as a part of amplifying successful experiments when uncertainties are much lower.” 

Quando uma empresa, quando um país, tem de mostrar as cartas e está sem graus de liberdade... tem de fazer experiências e, no entanto, não pode falhar nessas experiências que fizer... e quem é que sabe? E quem é que pode prever o futuro? É a corda bamba permanente, é o credo na boca a toda a hora.
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Trechos retirados de "Getting Stronger through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You"