Weeds & Wild Growth – Managing th...
Weeds & Wild Growth – Managing the Unplanned

The Global Business Insights Podcast with Dr Charlotte de Br... by Max Kent

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Every active organisation accumulates weeds — unnecessary tasks, outdated processes, small dysfunctions that appear without permission. The question isn't whether you'll have them. It's whether you'll manage them before they take over.

In this episode, Max & Charlotte explore the difference between inevitable organisational mess and patterns that genuinely threaten system health. Not all weeds are equally dangerous — and not all "unplanned growth" is actually a problem.

Max introduces four categories of weeds: harmless (small annoyances that don't affect outcomes), thirsty (tasks or people consuming attention without giving value back), warning (repeated errors signalling deeper issues), and invasive (patterns that will destabilise the whole system if left uncheck ... 

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