Enjoyed your thoughts on relating butterfly-flapping change to
customer-order change vis-a-vis generating transformational change in a
system. I do, however, see a subtle difference in your two examples. The
point of the butterfly illustration has to do with the inherent
unpredictability of a _non-linear_ system (and all _living_ systems are
inherently non-linear.) I would suggest that a small change in customer
orders (IMO part of a _linear_ system) would have very little impact on
overall change.
The real possibilities lie in the subtle changes in living systems (due to
feedback loops) that might lead to transformational change. These kinds of
changes are much more exciting to me, and have more to do with changes in
consciousness and belief systems...to me, that's where the leverage lies,
not in changes in customer orders.
Regards,
Robert
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