Organizations are complex adaptive systems, they have to react to environment and change. Organizations that peak get complacent. At the edge of chaos, innovation and creativity take place. The network is emerging as the signature form of organization in the Information Age, just as bureaucracy stamped the Industrial Age, hierarchy controlled the Agricultural Era and the small group roamed in the Nomadic Era. Nomadic societies were comprised of small groups and used spoken communications, Agricultural societies were hierarchical, and used written communication, Industrial times saw bureaucracy formed and printed communication, Information age uses networks and electronic communications.
Chaos theory is the science of complexity, instability and disorder.
Chaos is the essence of order it is sensitive to little changes. Fractals are a visual expression of the dynamics of chaos. Resistance to change is a threat to an organization's identity. Corporate DNA organize by information not by function provoke counter cultures discover the shadow organization build a learning organization understand chaos through variation determine its strange attractor a tool used is space-phase diagrams.