How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debtObserving the flock based on how individual biological behaviors aggregate into structured group intelligence (image source: Asa Leonard)Molly Graham wrote an essay a week ago that ruined the traditional management approach for me. In it, she asked what would happen if we stopped long-term systematic planning like a set of stairs and started treating them like starling murmurations.It hit a nerve because design leadership is currently suffering from a bad case of mechanical thinking. We talk endlessly about cross-functional alignment, product development and operations, and predicting roadmaps. But mechanical systems are brittle. They crack the second an executive stakeholder pivots strategy, a competitor drops a new AI feature out of nowhere, or a team loses a seasoned designer in a...