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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

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How can we thrive in Complexity take 2

Editor's Notes

  1. Juggling!
  2. 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?
  3. 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!
  4. You’re not a number and nor is this cow. The Milk it Kill it or Grow it Story.
  5. The problem with Simplicity
  6. Sensitivity to initial conditions
  7. The irreducibility principle
  8. 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
  9. Juggling!