Eric Trist

From there, we will pull in Robert B. Duncan's empirical research on the true nature of uncertainty, looking at the specific variables that cause strategic paralysis in managers.

And then it gets really wild because we get into Emery and Trist's concept of turbulent fields, which explains why the ground literally feels like it is moving beneath our feet lately.

And finally, we will return to that 1975 medical strike in San Francisco, utilizing Alan D. Meyer's deep study on how those hospitals actually survived when the system completely broke down.

It is going to be a ride.

Does an industry just wake up one day and start moving faster? Or is there an underlying structural evolution taking place?

Right.

To map that escalation, our sources point to this landmark 1965 paper by Fran Emery and Eric Trist on the causal texture of organizational environments.

The Emory Interest paper is essential reading.