ifford Issue 76 / September 2021 up with a great new idea , it ’ s often picked up by other teams around the investment floor and copied and then percolates across the organisation organically ,” Robinson says . “ But there ’ s no one telling teams exactly how to go about investing .” Hock himself continues to write on the subject , recently suggesting that Covid-19 exposed the “ simplistic , mechanistic , command-and-control concepts of organisation ” that led governments to fumble their response to the health crisis . After that “ wake up call ,” he suggests , the benefits of a chaordic approach beyond the business world have become clearer . If you ’ d like to learn more about Baillie Gifford ’ s thoughts on chaordic organisations , tune into our podcast , Short Briefings on Long Term Thinking . You can find the podcast at bailliegifford . com / podcasts or subscribe at Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or on TuneIn .
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