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How can we thrive in Complexity?
This document discusses how to thrive in complexity. It notes that the world is nonlinear and we have forgotten this, becoming too focused on outcomes and trying to do too much. It suggests remembering emergence and using open space technology to address complexity in a way that is sensitive to initial conditions and allows for multiple answers rather than one single right answer.
How can we thrive in Complexity?
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Juggling!
- #5 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?
- #12 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!
- #13 Sensitivity to initial conditions
- #14 Time! It’s no wonder. The current pace of life in the modern world.
- #17 You’re not a number and nor is this cow. The Milk it Kill it or Grow it Story.
- #18 The irreducibility principle
- #20 The problem with Simplicity
- #36 HRO’s.
- #40 Open Space Technology
- #45 Juggling!
- #46 HRO’s.