To the sources!
—Erasmus
In the rise of Egypt over its first three Dynasties, emergence put on quite a demonstration. By the time Moses confronts Pharaoh (18th–19th Dynasty) synergy is displaced by scientism—of the kind we see still undoing sustainment in present-day enterprise. The Fertile Crescent is a classic case where mutual co-adaptation (lean principles) gave way to atavism and abuse of hierarchy.
The Nile begins in Uganda. It flows up through a great Sahara Desert. At the coast of Egypt, it empties across a delta of deposited silt, into the Mediterranean. The river pulses on a strong seasonal flood cycle (not unlike demand variability in manufacturing). At even a short distance from the riverbank, during the dry months ...
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