How can we thrive in complexity?

Why do we make life so hard for ourselves?

Andrew Rixon PhD Director http://www.babelfishgroup.com

Facilitate – verb 1.to make easier or less difficult; help forward 2.to assist the progress of (a person).

We’ve forgotten something…

The world’s not a straight line

Remember your career path?

“ I used to think the idea that Brazil could get a financial flu from Russia because a failed hedge fund, say, had invested in both – was far-fetched. I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have.” -- Economist Paul Krugman Professor at Princeton and recent Nobel prize winner Harvard Business Review June 2009

Other signs of forgetting…

Being too “outcomes” focussed

Thinking there’s ONE right answer… (And it’s 42!)

Trying to do too much!

And why is simplicity shunned?

Remembering Complexity

Sensitivity to Initial Conditions

Emergence

Did you know: Ants “discovered” agriculture through division of labour and hierarchy around 40,000 years ago?

How far have we come?

How agile ?

Another example?

A complexity inspired approach to organising…

“ Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) American Management Consultant, Author (Widely considered to be the father of modern management )

So it can work…

But why do we forget ?

We have personal orientations to Complexity…

Oh and one last thing…

People are good .

Andrew Rixon PhD Director http://www.babelfishgroup.com