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Org Systems and Chaos: Abstraction of Reality, Reality of Abstraction

Management Craft

I was talking with a very smart friend of mine last week about some of the complexities involved with USING systems theory and chaos theory in organizational systems.

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Leadership and the New Science

Deming Institute

The new science aspect provides the frame of reference of quantum physics and chaos theory. But the real eye-opener for me was to realize how control and order were two different things, and that you could have order without control. That was a major shift in my own thinking that I certainly discovered through the science.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

The butterfly effect is a popularized interpretation of one of the key elements of chaos theory and has its roots in something that mathematicians refer to as “extreme sensitivity to initial conditions” (small and seemingly insignificant changes at the start of a process can produce wildly different and practically unpredictable results).

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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. When our standard intuitions meet modern-day complexity, a brain-world gap arises. Closing this brain-world gap depends, in part, on exploiting the insights of complexity science.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

The other big idea in the 1988 article was chaos theory. You can find lots of scholars at top economics departments who study why bubbles and crashes happen, and how psychology and genetics shape individual decisionmaking.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

The butterfly effect is a popularized interpretation of one of the key elements of chaos theory and has its roots in something that mathematicians refer to as “extreme sensitivity to initial conditions” (small and seemingly insignificant changes at the start of a process can produce wildly different and practically unpredictable results).

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Fireside Chat with John Kay - Obliquity #bizbooks

Management Craft

Are you a fox or a hedgehog? Check out this podcast! During this 24 minute podcast, I chat with John Kay , author of Obliquity: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly. For those of you who manage others, set goals, create stratgy, and/or strive to build a great workplace and life, this podcast and book is for you.

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