Longform Thoughts: Why Organizations Undermine Creativity & Potential
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
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What Does Chaos Theory Mean for Organizations?
In the 1970s and 1980s new research began to emerge around what people were starting to call chaos theory. One of the fundamental tenets of chaos theory is that small changes in the organization have the potential to have big effects within the system. Professor Grary Grobman summarized the implication for organizations and managers quite simply. If we assume a certain unpredictable unpredictability in individual actions it makes a lot of modern management practices look not very smart.
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