Blogmark: Legacy Systems Aren't Clocks (via)

Read this once a week to if you want to build organisation capacity for continuous adaption. And why would you not want to do that!

The irony is profound: by giving up the illusion of control—the detailed plans, the predetermined architectures, the rigid timelines—you gain real influence over complex systems. You stop trying to predict the unpredictable and start building the capabilities to adapt to whatever emerges.