| Leadership, Entropy & Disorder
Why Being Disruptive
Matters to Leadership
In a couple of hours
I give a
presentation to open
the leadership
conclave in
India...I've been
awake most of the
night because of the
time change and
thinking about
entropy and
leadership...what
I've realized is
that leadership
"interrupts"
entropy...stalling
it in an
organization,
thereby
complexifying it and
make entropy
inefficient in
flowing energy to
it's final state,
the death of the
organization
I
also realized
shortly before that
coaching, as a virus,
can be introduced
into an organization
as the host and do
the same thing...perturb
entropy that is naturally seeking the most efficient
path to the final state...death of the business.
Then along comes
Richard Freis with this
piece (also in
future edition
newsletter, which I
copied) so I think
you realize that
"disordering" is
part of dynamic
inquiry
(perturb--one of the
5 ps) and therefore
actually creates
order, which makes
sense if you
understand
dissipative systems,
entropy and all that
jazz
http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6845.html
According to a computational study, one may create
order by introducing disorder. While working on a
model - a network of interconnected pendulums, or
"oscillators" -researchers noticed that when driven
by ordered forces the various pendulums behaved
chaotically and swung out of sync like a group of
intoxicated synchronized swimmers. But when they
introduced disorder -forces were applied at random
to each oscillator - the system became ordered and
synchronized.
The question I'll leave you to
think about: Is leadership the only thing standing
between organizational life and death?
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