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The Last Word

The Complexity Perspective: A Perpetual Process of

“Becoming” Rooted in Emergence

Emergence through Stigmergic Action is at the heart of the Complexity
Perspective.

Emergence through stigmergic action is the
spontaneous actions of interacting agents
(people and firms) responding to local stimuli

and creating new higher-level functionality

This new functionality is then diffused
through the context in a nonlinear fashion,

thereby forcing all other agents to co-evolve
the business context through their actions to
promote and protect their interests. As the

context shifts each agent/actor must respond:
adapt or die.

This process is not directed, it has no end goal; it simply unfolds.

Put that way it seems such a simple thing, but it has driven human
history since the beginning of time. It REALLY is the way the world

works.

If it is so simple, why do people not intuitively perceive it?

 Possibly because we spend our lives inside bounded
organizations focused on the goals and structures of the
organization.

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