Humans do not behave like ants, termites, bacteria, etc…
Now as many of you know I don’t think we can treat human systems in the same way as chemical reactions and insect behaviour. Human systems are unique in several respects:
- humans have multiple identities to which they orientate in varying degrees, they do not constitute a single agent
- we are pattern based intelligences, matching a limited data scan against tens of thousands of experience patterns, we do not make decisions based on rules
- we can distinguish between winks and blinks, we understand intentionality and can act in more diverse ways accordingly we think in and can be orientated to abstractions not just reality, this leads to unpredictable behaviour
- gifting and altruism appear to be a part of our evolutionary condition, capable of perversion but still there
- Dave Snowden
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Complex adaptive theory in human systems is different from in the physical world
Organisations are not Complex Adaptive Systems
(Source: cognitive-edge.com)
