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Why I Started Researching Autonomy, and How It Led to the Framework for Autonomous Organizations

Why I Started Researching Autonomy, and How It Led to the Framework for Autonomous Organizations

Update: 2025-11-29
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Marc Ragsdale explains why he began researching autonomy and how it led to the 5A Framework for self-managing organizations.

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Ragsdale: The modern workplace depended entirely on human awareness to move work forward. He says this dependence on human attention was the opposite of autonomy. Ragsdale spent more than twenty five years building companies, designing systems, and using each environment as a research laboratory for enterprise autonomy.

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Why I Started Researching Autonomy, and How It Led to the Framework for Autonomous Organizations

Why I Started Researching Autonomy, and How It Led to the Framework for Autonomous Organizations

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