Clarity, transparency, consequences

rom Embrace Crunchiness by Nico Colchester.

Crunchiness brings wealth. Wealth leads to sogginess. Sogginess brings poverty. Poverty creates crunchiness. From this immutable cycle we know that to hang on to wealth, you must keep things crunchy.

Crunchy systems are those in which small changes have big effects leaving those affected by them in no doubt whether they are up or down, rich or broke, winning or losing, dead or alive.

In Colchester's model, crunchiness is clarity, transparency, consequences. You might also characterize it as the necessary circulatory system of a productive system. The less CTC, the soggier you get and then into poverty. Contemporary examples abound, in fact they are in superabundance - Healthcare, finance industry, insurance industry, federal entitlement programs, pensions, internet bubbles, housing debacle, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, France, etc. Everyone hiding from the consequences which will come right on anyway. Kipling and his The Gods of the Copybook Headings.