Solving Tough Problems

Map Branches

• Dynamic Complexity p. 31
  • Cause & Effect relative to Time & Space
  • High Dynamic Complexity
    • How an economic decision in one nation might affect the other.
  • Low Dynamic Complexity
    • Car engine
      • Why piecemeal approach to fix works. Test and retest is easy.
• Social Complexity p. 31
  • Low SC
    • Common assumptions
    • Common values
    • Common rationales
    • Common objectives
  • High SC
    • Contains people who look at things differently
    • "Problems of high social complexity cannont be peacefully solved by authorities from on high; the people involved must participate in creating and implementing solutions.
• "Apartheid Syndrome" p. 32
  • "trying to solve a highly complex problem using a piecemeal, backward-looking, and authoritarian process that is suitable only for solving simple problems."
  • "people at the top of a complex system try to manage its development through a divide-and-conquer strategy: through compartmentalization."
• Generative Complexity p. 31
  • Future is familiar and predictable... or NOT
  • Low GC implies past solutions will endure into the future.
  • High GC the future cannot be predicted based upon what has worked in the past.
    • Work out as the situation "unfolds"

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