New and surprising information can get in. The boundaries are permeable. Feedback is life-sustaining. It provides essential information about how to maintain one's existence. It also indicates when adaptation and growth are necessary.
Feedback supports movement toward fitness.
Through the constant exchange of feedback, the individual and its environment coevolve towards mutual sustainability. As we reflect on the capacities that feedback can provide, it seems we are seeking many similar attributes in our organizations. But we haven't replicated the same processes, and therefore we can't achieve the same outcomes. There are some critical distinctions between feedback and measurement, as evident in the following contrasts. Criteria are chooses what to notice established externally.