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?"TRANSCRIPT
How can we
thrive in complexity?
Why do we make life so hard
for ourselves?
Andrew Rixon PhDDirectorhttp://www.babelfishgroup.com
Facilitate
–verb1.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 KrugmanProfessor at Princeton and recent Nobel prize winnerHarvard 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 PhDDirectorhttp://www.babelfishgroup.com