Organizational DNA
In complex adaptive systems, groups have the capacity to move together, even when they are free to make their own choices.
Like a flock of birds, teams, organizations, and communities synchronize without enforcing alignment. The key is a short list of Simple Rules. The rules allow every individual to act with local information and still to participate in emergent coherence. Rules inform individual action, and individual actions create systemic patterns over time and space. In this article, Royce Holladay explores why and how Simple Rules are both simple and complex.
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November 6, 2014
Glenda Eoyang explores patterns. What? generates patterns in complexity? So what? options for action emerge? Now what? can you do to see and/or create coherence in chaos?
Radical Rules for Schools provides a path for seeing, understanding, and influencing the dynamics that shape patterns of generative teaching and learning. Using the principles of human systems dynamics, this practical book helps build adaptive capacity for individuals and groups. The rules change behaviors, and the behaviors transform patterns as educators adapt to the challenges and changes they face today. The authors recommend a short list of simpleyet radicalrules to guide decision making and action to set conditions for generative teaching and learning for students, faculty, administrators, boards, and families.
