Designing For Tropophilia: Building Beautifully Tropophilic Organisations!

When a sudden random event hits you, it makes you stronger if it does not kill you, i.e., it helps you become tropophilic. In other words, it makes you more than antifragile, resilient, and adaptive. It makes you capable of feeding on adversity and dealing efficiently with chaos and uncertainty and, therefore, benefiting from the impact of future improbables.

From biology, we know that heterosis (i.e., hybrid vigor or outbreeding enhancement of the offspring) comes about when the best traits of the parents are passed onto the offspring, as opposed to inbreeding.

A simple example of proactive heterosis or saliency is human vaccination. By taking a small hit now, through a vaccine, one can better deal with a major hit in the future.

By proactively building one’s immune system one can, eventually, attain tropophilia.

Tropophilia incorporates proactiveness and removes asymmetries and monocultures. It builds symmetries and heterosis. Ensures that the majority (with skin in the game) rules the game!

Tropophilia is built by the continuous directive correlation between the system and its environment.

Thus, Tropophilia further develops error-reducing-benefit-maximizing organizational structures where…