Seeing Like a State: How Tops-Down Management Styles Create Disaster in Complex Systems | William Hurst

William Hurst is all too familiar with the disasters that have resulted from tops-down governance. William has documented firsthand the chaos that ensues when decision-makers remain isolated from the realities of life on the ground in his decades of fieldwork in China and Indonesia. In this episode, Dart and William explore how companies experience similar problems when they try and optimize complex systems for narrow outcomes. William is the Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at Cam...