Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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Management Craft

APRIL 3, 2011

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. The complexity of systems IS - it exists whether we see or choose to engage in it. What does all this mean?

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

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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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

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. The hallmark of a wicked problem is that it cannot be reduced to a single-cause explanation.

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