1	MICROMANAGEMENT AS A VIRUS What managers and government need to learn from physiologists and physicians about the maintenance of good health in adaptive systems.
2	Introduction What is Micromanagement? What is a Virus? Two models of management
3	Micromanagement The control and direction of an enterprise, activity, a company in every particular and to the smallest detail.
4	Two Management models (A) Top down, central control, micromanagement (B) Management sets goals and monitors networks of largely autonomous subsystems.
5	Micromanagement can’t work Because control and health in any adaptive system requires: autonomous systems force and counter force Type B management But why?
6	Plato
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8	The Borg
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10	Regulation The regulation and harmony necessary for the health of the body require: a multiplicity of feed-back systems, operating relatively independently, and often in opposition or cross-purposes to each other.
11	A Living system Requires both Stability and Adaptability It is stable because it is modifiable.
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13	Glucose regulation
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15	Claude Bernard
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17	Walter Cannon
18	Homeostasis
19	Complexity of glucose regulation
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21	A Pig
22	Socrates
23	"Would central intelligent control improve..." Would central intelligent control improve the metabolism of the pig?
24	In-put out-put system
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26	Kitten
27	Basic Control System
28	"There is no need for..." There is no need for control mechanisms if: -- there is no deviation from controlled value -- deviations are entirely predictable
29	Control Trade Offs In all control systems there is a trade-off between steady state control, and the ability of the system to react quickly and effectively to rapidly changing inputs.
30	Lags Build Examples: - Open loop highways - Closed looped systems - Chaotic systems
31	"System Stability is maintained by..." System Stability is maintained by Damping.
32	Damping An overdamped system will be sluggish An underdamped system will be unstable To maintain a critically damped system generally requires multiple damping sub- systems
33	"We can predict that there..." We can predict that there will be accidents We cannot predict precisely when and where those accidents will occur
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