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Traffic in India: a self-organising system

November 23, 2009 @ Learning Leader from PatrickMayfield

What happens when:

  1. Everyone disobeys the formal 'rules'?
  2. Everyone observes consistent values?

Answer: you get an unlikely emergent property.

I've just come back from a trip to India, where I was delivering a P3O course to a very agreeable and able group of consultants. (All passed with flying colours.) Since this was my first trip to this fantastic country I was, like most westerners, fascinated by the etiquette in the apparent chaos of traffic. It looks dangerous - and it probably is by our standards - but it seems to work. (See video below.)

'Respect' is a high value in India. Also, there is a pecking order, my driver told me:

  • Lorries and buses
  • Cars
  • Rickshaws
  • Motorcycles
  • Pedestrians

There is a sort of precedence according your vehicle 'caste'.

Emergence and emergent property are concepts we try to illustrate in our changement management training. Now I have an excellent example from first hand experience.

   
 


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