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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Quite naturally, we tend to see chaos as overwhelming, confusing, stressful, and frenzied. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. Why don’t we?

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Leadership and the New Science

Deming Institute

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. The new science aspect provides the frame of reference of quantum physics and chaos theory. instead results emerge from a system.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

Economic theories based on rational behavior have been called into doubt by recent events. If you want to learn about the subject, in fact, Hector's article is probably better — it's clearer in its descriptions of the relevant theories. Have we learned nothing in the intervening two decades? But it's 22 years old.