I have been studying leadership, psychology, systems modeling and
complexity science and have come across a perplexing question of which the
group may shed some light.
>From my left brain... (that's hoping they are talking today!)
In complexity science, it is well understood that competition and
cooperation are interwoven together in a hierarchical matrix... that is a
system may show local signs of Competition for resources in a small part
of the network while the larger whole grows from the local losers. In
biological systems, death is a natural part of the species propagation
cycle in relationship to it's co-evolving environment.
However, my right brain says from intuition that cooperation is the path
to synergy and competition is just a lower state to be evolved through.
Also, Abe Maslow would have argued that this evolution would take a clear
path upward and eventually a mutually evolved man and society (Eupsychia)
would over time emerge.
Must Competition and cooperation coexist in an organization due to laws of
complexity or is this the result of my reluctance to give up my old
paradigm of win/lose that has been bred into us from this material society
in which we live?
Thank you,
Chuck Wallace
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