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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.
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.