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Complexity & emergence
Experts now talk about organisations as living systems. Learning from nature, sustainable enterprises incorporate environmental & social responsibility. Quite simple maths often gives rise to complex patterns, and the smallest variations in the rules can lead to dramatic changes.
Communities of practice emerge when local people work together, following their own or institutional rules. These community groups are called self-organising because they emerge, evolve and dissolve according to their own learning.
The reasons why enterprises appear, lie in the non-linear mathematics of complexity theory and in the way network structures are produced when living cells communicate. Recent thinking sheds new light on the benefits and challenges of cultural diversity.
Understanding this science can help develop leadership, innovation and learning across organisations, consortia and communities.
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