Complexity by Design Masterclass
July 22, Brooklyn
The systems we care about- organizations, markets, cultures, the people in the room you’re sitting in- were not designed. They emerge, becoming and responding to the openness of the world they’re connected to.
Emergence is the opposite of design, but it is not a problem to be solved; it is an opportunity to learn and sense subjectivity rather than ignore it.
On July 22, I’m holding a masterclass at Index Greenpoint. We won’t practice controlling complexity because that can’t be done. Instead, we’ll develop the skills to read and engage with it: identifying emergence, scale, and self-organization. The muscle to remain open and resilient when faced with confusion — recognizing those moments as the leading edge of creativity, not its failure.
You’ll leave with a working distinction between complicated and complex, frameworks for reading the systems you lead, a new relationship to confusion, and leadership tools for designing inside systems you can’t control.