Our model for understanding the cycle of change is based in the natural laws of systems and how they adapt to changes in the environment. He later expanded the model with further research into what is known now as the Transformation Theory of systems. Unlike the incremental approach, Transformation Theory explains both the process of change as well as the crucial points when change is not a linear extension of the past. Systems are collections of parts, functions, or attributes that function together for a common purpose. The systems that concern us contain both people and processes.
Systems grow through the dynamic process of change.
Since nature has been changing for 4.5 billion years, natural systems provide a rich set of examples for how dynamic change takes place. We can detect three distinct phases of growth in any system, whether it is a social system or a physical system. Neither of these approaches has proven a good predictor. There are periods of linear incremental change, and then there are periods of rapid discontinuous change. Our model has three distinct phases of change separated by periods of turbulence and discontinuity.