HeyJaredVet Business Books Podcast
Discover key insights from the world's most influential business books through engaging podcast episodes.
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Episode 35: The Unaccountability Machine (Deep Dive) by Dan Davies (opens the original)
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In this episode, we explore 'The Unaccountability Machine (Deep Dive)' by Dan Davies. A full chapter-by-chapter deep dive into Dan Davies' 2024 book on accountability sinks — the structures that let big systems make terrible decisions with nobody to blame. Covers Stafford Beer's cybernetics, POSIWID, the Viable System Model, debt as a control technology, the Friedman doctrine, populism as a pain signal, and what it all means for an independent veterinary group.
Episode 34: The Fractal Organization by Patrick Hoverstadt (opens the original)
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In this episode, we explore 'The Fractal Organization' by Patrick Hoverstadt. In 'The Fractal Organization,' Patrick Hoverstadt makes Stafford Beer's Viable System Model usable for practical managers, arguing that a handful of laws govern whether an organisation lives or dies. Covers Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, the five systems every viable business repeats at every scale, trust-building monitoring, measuring viability rather than targets, strategic risk, and his field guide of twenty-one
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