Target deal and winning coalition: You seek sustainable agreement on your company's preferred technology standard from a critical mass of key players in your industry association.
Another obstacle to creating a robust capital market for inventions is one that all complex systems face in their early days: the need to achieve a critical mass of key players.
With all due respect to Joe Girardi, his mass benching of key players might have looked like panic within the Yankees clubhouse.
This, according to lawyers for the bankers, "resulted in the risk of a devastating mass exodus of key personnel and caused the Financial Services Authority to place it under close scrutiny".
Jenkins – who has insisted the bank had to pay higher bonuses to avoid a "death spiral" caused by a mass walkout of key staff – received shares worth almost £3.8m from bonuses handed to him up to three years ago.
The BNP chairman, who has led the party since 1999, is facing a second leadership challenge in less than 12 months, a mass defection of key organisers and the prospect of a new "popular front" made up of other far-right groups and former BNP activists.
Government plans to move the bulk of the London-based Office for National Statistics to Newport look set to cause a mass exodus of key staff that could undermine the quality of economic data used to set government policies and interest rates.
The oceans are becoming more acidic at the fastest rate in 300m years, due to carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, and a mass extinction of key species may already be almost inevitable as a result, leading marine scientists warned on Thursday.
That message could come in the form of a bad quarter, the departure of several more executives or a mass exodus of key employees or customers.
The mass exodus of key personnel from the Ficano administration is also a concern.
However, all previously documented cases have found dominance by seaweeds difficult to reverse, because the algae prevent settlement of new corals, and because the algae persist, usually due to overfishing or mass mortality of key herbivorous species and to relative unpalatability of algae to herbivores [14], [15].
