1. The AND of the World:
Dealing with Complexity
Dr. Bob Deutsch
Brain Sells LLC

2. The Third Millennium:
The Context Is TOO
• Too Fast
• Too Complex

3. The Escalation of UN-
• Un-certainty
• Un-predictability
• Un-decodability

4. The World of Unconnected Dots:
An Endless Series of Staccato NOWs

5. The World Is Between Mythologies
• The current context of the world is: “I
don’t know what the current context of
the world is”

6. Nothing Is All of
One Piece Anymore
“Nowadays, things are always advancing,
getting better, sometimes for the
worse.”
-- A Kansas City Housewife

7. Complexity
is the Air We Breath

8. Shakespeare’s World of
To Be OR Not To Be
Is a Quaint Illusion

9. To Be AND Not To Be.
That is the Challenge.

10. What Are We To Do?

11. My Answer

12. The 5 Essentials
• Curiosity
• Openness
• Sensuality
• Paradox
• Self-Story

13. Deep Dive

14. An Insight from Vaclav Havel:
Explanation v Understanding

15. An Insight from Normal mailer:
Live IN Feeling

16. Einstein’s Embodied Body

17. Q before A
Boris Yeltsin: A Case In Point

18. For Innovation & Creativity,
Nothing is Off-Topic

19. Denial of Complexity
or seeking a
Least-Common-Denominator
Can No Longer Suffice

20. Go Beyond Familiarity

21. Or Else

22. Nobu’s Surprises

23. Feynman’s Fish

24. Ferragamo:
Making Abundance from Scarcity

25. Norman Mailer’s Crystals

26. Ascending to Brilliance
Analyst Types “Chunking”
Extent and
Connectivity
 Knowledge
 Process
Analytical
Function
Knowledge
Representation
Causality
Graphic
Representation
Routinizer
Few
dimensions
Partially
connected,
partially
complete
Description
(past)
Discrete
(correspondence
with literal
details)
Linear
Analyzer
Multi-
dimensions
More fully
connected,
complete
Classification,
explanation
(present)
Simple, direct
inferences
Relational
Synthesizer
Multi-
dimensions and
relations
Connected,
complete,
indexical
Prediction
(near-term
extrapolation)
Systemic
(abstractions &
Stories)
Transactional
Creator
Patterns and
principles
Connected,
complete,
indexical,
transformationa
l (automatic)
Long-term
strategizing
Underlying
structures
(Meta-Stories)
Contextual
Increasing
Complexity

27. The Paradoxical Challenge of Modernity:
Can I Expand My Identity Without Negating My Identity?

28. A Shaman’s Lesson: Living in Paradox