Redundancy

"...Organisms with the "best" traits often lose to organisms with "good enough" traits in the right niche. Fast growth often precedes collapse. Waste and redundancy can be strategic advantages. I'm going to tell you specific stories about specific companies. Not generic examples."

"...ngal partners. The lesson: the most resilient symbioses aren't bilateral deals. They're networks where multiple parties exchange resources, creating redundancy and collective resilience that bilateral relationships can't achieve. --- Part 2: Business Applications When Companies Form Symbiotic Relati..."

"...ing a new market with no infrastructure? (Yes = pioneer) Your ecosystem position determines strategy: - Keystone/Engineer → Build moats and redundancy**: You're a single point of failure. Competitors will try to displace you. Governments will regulate you."

"...rce at every node, high energy cost, fragile under stress. They should build like trees: demand-driven pull, physics does the work, resilient through redundancy. This chapter is about nutrient networks - the infrastructure that matters more than the resources themselves. **Having resources means nothing if ..."

"...d power creates extraction temptation - Coalition would be unstable from day one 2. Zero-sum benefits: - Value creation comes from eliminating redundancy (layoffs, closures) - One party must sacrifice for other's gain - No win-win structure possible 3."