Fractal Events

Transparency
17. diversity aligned • get all internal units pointing in common direction reduce variation of direction among org units
18. basic functions installed
• fractally implement most fundamental management functions establish uniformity (non-complexity) by level of implementation of fundamental management functions
19. invisibles made visible
• measure latent, interior, emotive components of impact get systems to embrace emotive, subtle, nascent signals easily missed by formal, overt, rational systems--reduce complexity from missed non-rational dimensions operating unseen
20. transparency to voices
• omni-directional undistorted transmission of requirements reduce complexity of inconsistent transmission of messages in upward, downward, leftward, and rightward direction.


The Complexity Handling
Viewpoint
There is complexity in events, in
designing workshops, and in doing
workshop procedures to create some
product. Complexity is really a cover
for a new more biologic type of common
sense. We see bone as stronger
than steel, because bone, unlike steel,
grows strong exactly where it is under
stress and bone, unlike steel, fixes itself
when and where it breaks. By managing
people and systems from the beginning
as populations of simple things
interacting complexly till better-thanexpected
things emerge, instead of managing
people so they are simple, their
interactions are simple, and their results
are simple (the machine bureaucracy
period of managing), we get more biologic
people, organizations, and results.
Denying complexity, avoided it, or ruling
it out by mechanical designs and
mechanical social arrangements of people,
reduces quality and creativity of
outcomes. Managing by Events can be
managed to deny and keep out complexity
but only at a cost of no creativity
emerging in processes and outcomes.
To manage events and workshops more
biologically one must have available
good models of complexity theory and
the levers that adjust creativity of outcome
of complex populations of simple
things interacting complexly.

Richard Tabor Greene "Event Fractals
Fractals for Managing by Events"