- Even if it is not right, it is possible... I've quite recently had a discussion with one of my friends, Tom, who has been working for a large company - not a telecommunication one -, about the behaviour of one of his new colleagues, Jeff. Tom didn't understand why Jeff wasn't doing his utmost to be a valuable member of the team during his probation period.
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- Only Variety Can Absorb Variety I recently read the expression only variety can absorb variety, but I had no idea what it meant. It took me some time, but I figured it out. It is a short version of the Law of the Requisite Variety by William Ross Ashby (on the right), a pioneer in Cybernetics: The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate.
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