#169 Graceful Extensibility - with David Woods

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with David Woods, a professor at Ohio State University who discovered and pioneered the concept of Graceful Extensibility. As the opposite of brittleness, graceful extensibility is the ability of a system to extend its capacity to adapt when surprise events challenge its boundaries. In this episode, we talk: Dealing with shock The need to stretch at the boundaries How all systems are fragile Staying alive to 'weak signals' How viability requires extensibility Links: The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: basic rules Graceful Extensibility - short presentation The Strategic Agility Gap