In this General Assignment, address the question below and ground your answer in this week’s readings. This assignment will require APA writing standards. Your paper should be no less than 500 words. As with all written assignments in this course, use cited works to support your thesis and contentions.
Question: Complexity science shows that complexity has an inherent underlying simplicity. The key concepts include self-organization, inter-relatedness, adaptation, and emergence. How might these ideas be related to leadership?
Course Readings (please use for at least 3 of your sources):
Complex Adaptive Leadership (Obolensky, 2014)
– Chapter 5 – Order in Chaos, Simplicity in Complexity – The Deeper Paradox (including the exercise)
**Chaos Theory and Complexity Science contain ideas you should be familiar with even if you are not studying leadership!**
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz, Grashow and Linsky, 2009)
– Chapter 2 –The Theory Behind the Practice
**Consider the Observe, Interpret, Intervene model as an easy to remember heuristic approach!**
Harvard Business Review Articles
– Sargut, G., & McGrath, R. (2011). Learning To Live with Complexity. Harvard Business Review,Links to an external site., Harvard Business Review, 89(9), 68-76.
– Sullivan, T. (2011). Embracing ComplexityLinks to an external site. Harvard Business Review, 89(9), 89-92.
– Morieux, Y. (2011). Smart Rules: Six Ways to Get People to Solve Problems Without YouLinks to an external site. Harvard Business Review, 89(9), 78-86.
Videos:
https://youtu.be/r-JiHyejpn8
