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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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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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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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