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Living Systems

Almost all complex systems are actually made up of very simple parts repeated over and over again. If you think of ants, the complex structure that we see as a colony is actually many simple individuals self organising in to a bigger more complex system. The human body is one of the most complex systems known in the universe and yet it is basically a colony of simple individual cells self organising themselves into something infinitely stronger than any of the individual cells. Wellington is a complex system of individuals (like you and me) who self organise themselves into a community. The same comments could be made for countries, companies, teams, the internet, the economy and any other living system you can think of.

KEY LEARNING

Any organisation is a living system and operates within layers of other living systems. therefore, we need to understand the laws of living systems (see below) before we can understand it at a strategic level.