Leaders play a dual role in creating an environment that supports collective creativity and renewal. Set patterns and rigid rules are the primary impediment to creativity. Organizational theorist Margaret Wheatley examines the forces at work in self-organizing systems, and asks helpful questions that invite creative response. In the face of the complexities of life, many people hunger for a way to simplify. This assumes that simplicity and complexity are opposites.
Chaos theory states that complexity and simplicity are two parts of one whole.
Things are not either complex or simple, but they are both simple and complex to some degree. People are caught in a paradox of behaviors. We tend to make some things more difficult and complex than they need to be, while oversimplifying other truly complex issues. Making things harder than they need to be results in stress and frustration, while oversimplification yields prejudice, labeling, and a tendency to make assumptions and jump to conclusions. Our desire to make things simple in the church have led to some of the most convoluted and complex organizational structures imaginable.