Your post made me smile.I loved your line about don't bring a cookie cutter to a complex adaptive system. It seems that there is such a deep investment (habit) in packaging (and selling) cookie cutter solutions to complex issues. I agree with you that an investment in time, attention and sense making is required to understand complex adaptive systems. Harder work involves figuring out what and how complexity plays out in your work sphere and then trying out something to further learn what will improve your workspace or business. Outsourcing to expert cookie cutters is less expensive and very little investment in learning is required.

Thanks for this Harold,

Brent