A system and a butterfly
The butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
Source: chaos theory
Every decision we make as artists, managers, leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs have a profound effect on society and the world we live. We need to understand how these decisions and actions impact the intergenerational well-being of our society and our planet that sustain life as we know it today.
We need to adopt a "Systems Approach" that is symbiotic with social and environmental initiatives that will sustain life for generations to come. The key areas that are at the highest level of necessity for our survival and human well-being revolves around a core set of needs.
The source of these basic needs come from five very important capital assets.
We need to manage these assets in a way that is balanced and works in concert with intergenerational well-being through a systematic framework. It starts with decisions about how these capital assets will interact with each other.
We need stakeholder interaction, feedback and we need to think through the consequences of our actions.
We need to apply a "Systems Approach" to this process by constantly CONNECTING though our relationships. We need to ADAPT and reorient to suit new conditions as they emerge. We need to INNOVATE and experiment with new possibilities.
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We live in "Complex Systems" with lots of connections and interactions, trade-offs and feedbacks, and surprises.
What is a system?
A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something.
Source: Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
When cause and effect are distant in time and space, problems become invisible to decision makers, and solutions get more challenging.
We need to constantly measure, evaluate, monitor all parts of the system and be open-minded and willing to learn, change and adapt...
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