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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

A system, an object, or a person can preserve stability while they undergo change. And the more stable, functionally sound, and grounded they are, the easier the person, system, or object can incorporate changes without being completely disrupted. A change in perspective will help you to upgrade your response system.

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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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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

Complexity arises from the interconnections between things — how parts within a system interact via intricate feedback mechanisms. However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. Brilliant leadership is now about brilliant facilitation.