Transcription of Chaos and Complexity: What Can Science Teach?
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Chaos and Complexity: Teach? What Can ScienceKeynote Address by Margaret J. Wheatley, Ed. around us and within us we ex-perience complexity and diversityEverywhere around us and within us we ex-perience change, death, and renewal; orderand Chaos ; growth and decay that becomesnew lifeEverywhere around us and within us we seepattern upon pattern, ever-deepening levelsof complexity and varietyWhy do we resist the vision or blind our-selves to the beauty or fail to embrace thelearnings?Eachof us lives and works in organi-zations designed from 17th century images of the uni-verse. The universe of Isaac Newton and Francis Baconwas a seductive place filled with clockwork imagespromising us prediction and reliability, teaching us toview everything, including ourselves, as machines.
Yet, throughout the universe, things work very well without us. Wherever we look, we see a landscape of movement and complexity, of forms that come and go, of
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