I see around me, that many people liberally use words like complex, complexity, complicated etc, and then put a great emphasis that these words do not have the same meaning.
Someone told me that a new shiny Agile framework has appeared in the market, where the disciples of this framework spend half of the time explaining to each other how Complex is not the same as Complicated. Maybe it serves them some purpose.
Another word that is being thrown around liberally is VUCA. Discussing VUCA is just another manifestation of the same thinking… “Making things complex”.
Our world has always been a VUCA world and it will always be a VUCA world.
About 160 years ago, when the raw cotton supply to the textile mills in Manchester was abruptly cut off due to the American civil war, it was a VUCA world. Textiles mills in Manchester found another supplier, and found a way around it. Because of that incident, the city of Mumbai prospered and eventually became the financial capital of India.
When Neanderthals met Homo Sapiens 60’000 years ago, it was a VUCA World. It was a tragedy for Neanderthals, and a victory for Homo Sapiens.
To me VUCA is just one more LFB (Latest Fashionable Buzzword).
Saying that… “Today We Live in VUCA World”, is like saying “Today We Breathe Air”.
Buzzwords are like cocaine. Both do a spectacularly good job for creating illusion.
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