September 30, 2005  LeadU NEWS Vol. 2, No. 39 Published Weekly on Fridays By Leadership University ====================================== From the Founder – Mike R. Jay, Master Business Coach ====================================== Leadership & Interior Development Here's a statement I see quite a bit lately: '...we need to complexify our interiority as much as our exteriority if we’re going to pull through...' This postulate assumes that we can and quite honestly, we can’t. Here’s why. Our biological schema is not geared to unlimited, it is geared through limitations (Blink, Gladwell) and thin-slicing a perceived reality from which to “decomplexify” the “search space” of computation (What is Thought?, Baum). The reason that there is no balance, as suggested by the statement as underlying obliquity (indirectly), is that limitations do NOT occurring in the collective mind. Therefore you have two evolutionary trajectories: individual and collective; one limited, another unlimited (in relative terms.) Many confuse the use of absolute tools in relative reality—that doesn’t compute. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, even if the gurus say so. In any case, I don’t believe the solution lies in us, but as the “kingdom of God” (Scott Peck)--'among us.' Therefore the solutions to complexity in the external domain, lie in design in the external domain, through individual and collective (SOUL) work which leverages individual strengths. In most of the complexity stuff I’ve seen…the issue lies in two realms (or more perhaps), not one : 1. You can solve growing complexity by increasing complexity. 2. You can solve growing complexity by limiting complexity on the process side.   Some say, this is a return to dark ages. NO, it doesn’t have to be, although that is a way. Through innovation, which can strikingly mimic the evolutionary curve of increasing complexity, in some cases it leads it, rather than trails it…we can innovate ourselves out of complex conditions. For some, this causes more complexity, yet for many it eliminates the negative effects of complexity and while collapse occurs, it is not, nor does it have to be, collapse of civilization, only as civilization as we know it (and make it up). It's literally and figuratively a jump to a new curve, in a lot of cases, one that takes us back down in complexity because the new innovation solved a complex problem. I do not buy into the contention that complexity has diminishing returns, unless you consider the object of those returns static--which will catch some people in the squat...as philosopher Jerry Clower indicated about bisquits that don't rise before they are cooked. (Humor) If you buy into the argument of unlimited complexity, then I am hear to sell you unlimited innovation. It is not necessary to keep pace internally, nor can we, if we tried, UNLESS you want to play transhuman, then it’s a whole new ballgame, but I don’t see many folks opening their arms to that one yet<VBG>. The key is to understand the answers lie in Design, perhaps not as it is written, but as it can be when we give up blank slate assumptions, like trying to keep internal pace with external evolution. Just a thought, mike Mike R. Jay, Founder http://www.leadu.com  P.S.  Please visit my blog http://www.integraleader.com/  to comment on this and other articles about leadership. P.P.S. 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