I’ve been investigating and writing about a special level of complexity – wickedness – for about a year. As I’ve said before, wickedness, in this context, doesn’t imply evil—it means unpredictability, interconnectedness, and the absence of clear cause-and-effect relationships. In a wicked world: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur Jean Egmon and I…
We live in a wicked world – a term borrowed from systems theory and complexity science to describe environments that are nonlinear, interconnected, fast-changing, and filled with uncertainty. Wicked challenges rarely have clear boundaries or definitive solutions and decisions made in one part of a system can ripple unpredictably through others. Let’s consider the U.S.–China…
Social media is where many of us find news, trends, and conversations. But with endless threads and viral posts flooding your feed, how do you separate fact from fiction? Misinformation and lies can go viral before anyone bothers to fact-check. If you want to stay sharp and avoid falling for clickbait, you need to level…
We are often told that “history” will judge us and our actions. But how long do we have to wait? Days? Months? Years? Centuries? Actually, we write our own history every day and we should be our own judge to start. Let’s see if our decisions and actions might stand up to the tests of…
“GM Factory of the Future Will Run with Robots” New York Times October 20, 1984 Whilst rummaging through my files recently I found an interesting clip about GM and its planned factory of the future program. (We actually cut items from the newspapers in those ancient times.) I recalled my interest about automation in those…
In sports, players who play both offense and defense are often referred to as “two-way players.” Business leaders exhibit two-way thinking day-in and day-out. Likewise, I see in people who exhibit a “prepared mind.” Prepared for what you ask? Prepared to deal with both challenges and opportunities, the two basic reasons why we need leaders…
Business has morphed beyond complex — it’s wicked.
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