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I've been thinking about loosely coupled systems (for insights into why most panel discussions don't work, but some do). I recommend, from the conclusion of Chapter 17 in Karl Weick's Making Sense of the Organization, the meditation beads in this sentence:

Actors in a loosely coupled system rely on trust and presumptions, persist, are often isolated, find social comparison difficult, have no one to borrow from, seldom imitate, suffer pluralistic ignorance, maintain discretion, improvise, and have less hubris because they know they cannot change the universe because it is not sufficiently connected to make this possible.