How can we thrive in Complexity take 2
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Keynote for AMP's AMPLIFY convention delivered Thursday 25th. The topic is "How can we thrive in Complexity?" could also be called "Why do we make life so hard for ourselves?"
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How can we thrive in Complexity take 2
- 1. How can we thrive in complexity?
- 2. Why do we make life so hard for ourselves?
- 3. Andrew Rixon PhD Director http://www.babelfishgroup.com
- 4. Facilitate – verb 1.to make easier or less difficult; help forward 2.to assist the progress of (a person).
- 6. The world’s not a straight line
- 7. Remember your career path?
- 10. “ 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
- 11. Other signs of forgetting…
- 12. Being too “outcomes” focussed
- 14. Thinking there’s ONE right answer… (And it’s 42!)
- 16. Trying to do too much!
- 17. And why is simplicity shunned?
- 19. Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
- 21. Emergence
- 22. Did you know: Ants “discovered” agriculture through division of labour and hierarchy around 40,000 years ago?
- 23. How far have we come?
- 25. How agile ?
- 30. Another example?
- 31. A complexity inspired approach to organising…
- 32. “ 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 )
- 36. So it can work…
- 37. But why do we forget ?
- 38. We have personal orientations to Complexity…
- 44. Oh and one last thing…
- 45. People are good .
- 47. Andrew Rixon PhD Director http://www.babelfishgroup.com
Editor's Notes
- Juggling!
- We’ve forgotten we live in a non-linear world. If we hadn’t we wouldn’t be surprised when… Stuck in a traffic jam we discover the accidents actually on the other side of the road You’re career path takes a twist turn! (Who has found an answer to “What will I become when I grow up?”) Childcare minding in Hong Kong The financial crisis? Maybe you can think of other examples?
- Sailing Story The moral is: When you are tooooo outcomes focussed you can miss the obvious Sometimes to get where you need to go you need to sail in a direction opposite Sometimes you need to sail towards the thing you don’t want to hit!
- You’re not a number and nor is this cow. The Milk it Kill it or Grow it Story.
- The problem with Simplicity
- Sensitivity to initial conditions
- The irreducibility principle
- 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
- Juggling!