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Does this statement or something similar run through your mind always? Know that you’re not alone. Since confusion is the norm today in times of increasing complexity, then navigating complexity becomes a necessity.
Navigating complexity is required when there are diverse elements that are independent yet interconnected in variational structures, and when emergence produces unintended outcomes. Complexity can occur in the external environment of an individual, the internal structure, or both.
However, there is a difference between complexity and complicated. Complicated may be in form of 1+1 = 2, while complexity revolves around 1+1 =3. Complexity here definitely feels like a hard nut to crack, but with the personal practices below, you should be able to navigate complexity seamlessly.
Take a simple metaphor from the write-up above as a teenage sales trainee in a clothing store. There’s a huge discount sale of hand gloves going on in the store and each pair of gloves were only tied together – no boxes or packages, just each pair tied together and put into a huge carton. This is what happens: by the end of the day, some of the gloves are no longer pairs of gloves, others still are, and they are all tangled up in one big huddle of gloves. They are tied together in what seems like one big knot, but they really are hundreds of small knots.
The option is not to “figure out” the knot structure before you begin. It is obviously not feasible. So you start untying one knot at a time, and what appears to be no structure at all will gradually emerge as a pattern, mostly as separate chunks of interconnected knots. The rest is routine after that. Navigating complexity frequently operates in the same manner. You can’t think your way through it; you have to act your way through it, knot by knot.
The best way to handle complexity depends on the circumstances and scenario, and these six ways to navigate complexity are meant to be starting points.
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