Why this module matters

  • Shows why fewer rules can mean more control

    Understand how a small number of clear principles can outperform excessive planning and rigid procedures.

  • Helps you balance order and self-organization

    Learn concepts like requisite variety, emergence, and enabling constraints to navigate the space between chaos and control.

  • Gives you a method to design your own rules

    Use the Min Specs method to create simple rules that guide action while leaving room for judgement and experimentation.

Learning outcomes

A detailed breakdown of the main learning outcomes for this module

  • Articulate the relevance of the law of requisite variety to project management

  • Apply the dilemma of chaos and order in complexity to a challenge of your own

  • Text length of individual points can be shorter or longer depending on your needs

Practise with hands-on exercises

In this exercise kit, you will look at a real situation where you hold too much control, identify which boundaries truly matter, and test replacing the rest with one simpler rule. Then, work with your team to strip a live challenge down to the smallest set of rules that still protect its purpose.

Instructor(s)

Marco Valente

Complexity expert

Marco helps leaders and teams, at the highest organizational levels, find their way forward in complex, messy challenges. Through a flexible array of simple practices, he will help you with approaches that are easy to use and that help you develop bigger minds over time. His fluency in facilitation provides us flexible design options to create meaningful leadership development experiences, and in creating the right dialogue formats for you to get great work done, find your answer in complexity, all the while learning and developing as a team and as leaders over time.

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