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complexity

Vaughn Tan4th January 2021 at 11:35am

The property of a system with many components or subsystems that interact in many and unpredictable ways, rendering the system as whole unpredictable. Most social systems (including teams and organizations) are complex, and are thus also characterised by uncertainty.

See also: amorphous organization, control, design, diversity, interconnected, interdependent, uncertainty mindset.