What if we tried to maintain a picture of the whole organisation and focus on the interaction between the background and foreground systems? We could see the texture (the fine weave) of how people, work, and organisation interact.

There seems to be a strong bias in our modern debates about the relative merits of generalists and specialists that put organisational design to one side to focus on the more binary argument that generalists are ‘better’ than specialists. It’s a silly conversation.