Quick thread on the five tradeoffs identified by Hoffman and Woods in the paper "Beyond Simon's Slice": https://cmapsinternal.ihmc.us/rid=1K2MHS0D4-1ZT3XRF-HPX/46.%2520Simon's%2520Slice.pdf

1. Optimality vs. resilience (adaptive capacity tradeoff)

The better you get at dealing with problems you're familiar with, the worse you'll be at dealing with problems you haven't seen before.

2. Efficiency vs. thoroughness (situated plan tradeoff)

The more quickly you complete your tasks, the less good a job you can do on each task.

3. Revelation vs. reflection (perspective tradeoff)

The more insight you get by switching perspectives, the less deep you can go in any individual perspective.

(this is the one I'm least sure about in my characterization)

4. Acute goal vs. chronic goal (goal responsibility tradeoff)

There are ongoing goals that we are always responsible for (you are testing thoroughly, right?), but there are more immediate goals that compete for our time.

5. Concentrated action vs. distributed action (action tradeoff)

If you push initiative down in the organization, people will be able to move more quickly, but enabling people to act independently makes coordination/synchronization more difficult.

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