topic: [[🐓 Idea Farm/2 Idea Guides/Growing Idea Guides/Teaming|Teaming]] created: 2023-09-13 *Structure, system, and attention interact to support a team or organizational response to crisis.* This reminds me that [[you amplify what you focus on]], so what an organization (or team) focuses on indicates what they will attend to. There is a tradeoff between a deep and purposeful [[focus attention]] on the immediate threat or challenge and a need for [[situational awareness]], attending to the bigger surrounding situation. Additionally, this work implies that when we think about modern teams, we should consider a [[Thinking in Systems]] lens, consider the team as a system, and since [[It's not the system, it's the implementation]], we should always consider the implementation of the team. what is this idea? Kudesia and Lang believe that [[structuration]] is a lens to use to ![[system structure and attention.jpg]] Since [[🐓 Idea Farm/2 Idea Guides/Growing Idea Guides/Teaming|Teaming]] involves a system becoming constrained and supported through structural alignment, understanding the problem allows the team to figure out what structure they need in order to put the attention on the right problem set during a crisis. ##### What would the opposite argument be? In many situations the structure is imposed by the outside world in some fashion, while we can at times connect to a porous and dynamic world, in other situations, we cannot. Imagine working in an underground capsule that loses communication to the outside, in this case the structure is influenced by the team but also is limited by the situation. tags: #note/idea | #on/structure | #on/team | #on/adhocteam | #on/crisis | #on/attention ##### Sources: Kudesia, R. S., & Lang, T. (2023). Toward an attention-based view of crises. _Strategic Organization_, 14761270231189935. [https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231189935](https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270231189935)