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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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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. And brilliant facilitation employs strategies based on three principal insights about complexity: 1. When our standard intuitions meet modern-day complexity, a brain-world gap arises. Brilliant leadership is now about brilliant facilitation.