{"id":4061,"date":"2015-05-09T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2015-05-09T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:55:39","slug":"the-slippery-slope-from-calm-to-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"The Slippery Slope From Calm To Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"figure_slipping_on_water_custom_sign_14210\"<\/a>System behaviour is often rather variable over the short term. \u00a0We have ‘good’ days and ‘bad’ days and we weather the storm because we know the sun will shine again soon.<\/p>\n

We are resilient and adaptable. And our memories are poor.<\/p>\n

So when the short-term variation sits on top of a long-term trend then we do not feel the trend …<\/p>\n

… because we are habituating.\u00a0We do not notice that we are on a slippery slope.<\/p>\n

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And slippery slopes are more difficult to climb up than to slide down.<\/p>\n

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In organisational terms the slippery slope is from Calm to Chaos. \u00a0Success to Failure. \u00a0Competent to Incompetent. Complacent to \u00a0Contrite. \u00a0Top of the pops to top of the flops!<\/p>\n

The primary reason for this is we are all part of a perpetual dynamic between context and content. \u00a0We are affected by the context we find ourselves in. We sense it and that influences our understanding, our decisions and our actions. These actions then change our context … nothing is ever the same.<\/p>\n

So our hard-won success sows the seeds of its own failure … and unless we realise that then we are doomed to a boom-bust cycle. \u00a0To sustain success we must learn to constantly redefine our future and redesign our present.<\/p>\n

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If we do not then we are consigned to the Slippery Slope … and when we eventually accept that chaos has engulfed us then we may also discover that it may be late. \u00a0To leap from chaos to calm is VERY difficult without a deep understanding of how systems work … and if we had that wisdom then we would have avoided the slippery slope in the first place.<\/p>\n

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The good news is that there is hope … we can learn to climb out of the Swamp of Chaos … and we can develop our capability to scale the slippery slope from \u00a0Chaos through Complex, and then to Complicated, and finally back to Calm. \u00a0Organised complexity.<\/p>\n

It requires effort and it takes time … but it is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

System behaviour is often rather variable over the short term. \u00a0We have ‘good’ days and ‘bad’ days and we weather the storm because we know the sun will shine again soon. We are resilient and adaptable. And our memories are poor. So when the short-term variation sits on top of a long-term trend then we … <\/p>\n

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