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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