Learn Your Way Forward: Complexity Science in Leadership
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Curt Lindberg, Chief Learning and Science Officer, Plexus Institute, thinks about how organizations and systems improve and change. He underscores the power of small actions in every day life that, in complexity, can amplify and reverberate and sometimes affect large difference.
Complexity informed processes yield new insights and offer guidance for leaders facing every approaching "Perfect Storm" -- and for business, government and civic leaders, the increasing demand and scarcity of resources in serving communities, organizations, regions and countries.
Curt advices us to accept we cannot know the future and "that grand plans are not as useful as we thought and if pursued produce many unintended consequences." Instead, small steps should be taken with time for reflection and learning.
Complexity invites engagement and "helps people let go of the notion that there's a system out there that's unchangeable, that's doing things to them in which they are total hopeless."
Our stories can bring perspective and represent the complexity of situations “better than a memo, better than a Power Point" while "respecting the local dynamics and context that are so much a part of the story.”
Such is the very special story of Jasper Palmer shared in this video whose wisdom and insight continues to save lives around the world.
Learn more about the Plexus Story and the organization's work in healthcare infection reduction.
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