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Lead in Complexity
Linear cause and effect are great when they work. Root causes and logical sequences explain change in mechanical systems. They can even work in some simple, highly constrained human systems. The problem is that they do not help you understand change in highly complex human systems dynamics.
Business & IndustryCollaborate to Create Community
All human systems are self-organizing, and teams are a great example. Individual agents come together from different places with different skills and expectations. They interact in meetings and over email. Over time, patterns form of high performance or wasted effort.
In complex adaptive systems, groups have the capacity to move together, even when they are free to make their own choices.
Adaptive Action is the simple, iterative, inquiry process at the center of human systems dynamics.
In times of massive uncertainty, rigid rules of belief and behavior begin to break down. As they do, what emerges to take their place to guide ethical action?
PhilanthropyManage Strategic Change
For 30 years a philanthropic intermediary had created and sustained a system for affordable housing in the metropolitan area around St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
GovernmentCollaborate to Create Community
Across the US, many groups work to end child abuse and neglect. Each group has its own funding source, theory of change, and history of relationships, successes, and failures.
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