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Camry Delay Illustrates Supply Chain Complexity
- Mark used his long-delayed Toyota Camry order as a running example of supply chain complexity and patience.
- What was promised as a three-month wait stretched to many months, then resolved with surprising pricing benefits.
Technical Fixes Break In Complex Systems
- Leaders often default to technical solutions that worked before but fail in today's non-linear complexity.
- Complex systems create cascading second- and third-order effects so past fixes (like 2008 stimulus) can produce new problems (like inflation).
Experts From The Past Aren't Always The Answer
- Leaders seek experts and past examples, but expert solutions are often from a different context or previous crisis.
- Local culture, history and interconnected systems make direct transplant of another church's tactics unreliable.