How is it manifested in such standard organizational phenomena as specialization and division of labor?
Division of labor is a common approach to address complex problems. Separate departments can buffer and segment experience, making it easier to learn in one part by inhibiting similar learning in another part. The amount of “loose coupling” can improve experience interpretation, but “tight coupling” can improve detection of errors. The organization can substitute learning in one specialized area for learning in another area. However, learning that leads to a comparitive advantage in one domain may decay adaptive capabilities in another domain. Specialization can improve performance but eventually can limit that performance. Under what circumstances can power be substituted for learning? Power allows an organization to change their environments rather than adapt to them, which causes them to lose their adapative capability. If they lose their control someday, they will become severely disadvantaged. What else can be substituted for learning? Adaptation by a fast learner in an organizati
