### complex phenomena | leadership:

Helm
* are leadership
  - mountains
* are part of motorboats
  - sailing vessels
  - ships
  - tugboats
* is leadership

Organizational leadership
* concept best learned through experience.
* draws on disciplines including business, history and literature.
* focuses on transforming possibly more than one environment.
* is one of the most widely researched topics in organizational psychology.
* matters most during a period of stress and uncertainty.

Political leadership
* involves more than the crafting and execution of laws.
* is much like religious leadership
  - something to be ignored or overcome
* legitimizes action, channels resources and holds the bureaucracy accountable.
* means prioritizing in a world of endless crises.

Responsible leadership
* is important for the success of a sorority.
* means following the principles of ethical decision-making
  - fostering interdependence between teams, suppliers, and customers

Shared leadership
* is leadership with greater potential.
* means that everyone plays a leadership role at some point or another.

Spiritual leadership
* involves the application of spiritual values and principles to the workplace.
* is more than leadership exercised in a church setting.
* matter of superior power, and that can never be self-generated.
* sacred responsibility.

True leadership
* is about taking people to a place they wouldn t go to by themselves
  - grounded in a state of being rather than doing
  - rooted in spirituality
  - the art of changing a group from what it is to what it ought to be
* occurs when people follow the leader as an act of their own free choice.

Complex phenomenon
* Complex phenomena transfer energy.
* Some complex phenomena involve forces.

### complex process:

Child development
* complex process.
* continuous process from conception through adolescence.
* follows a pattern similar to that of culture.
* is presented as a joint responsibility of home and community.

Human vision
* allows the discrimination of only about sixteen levels or intensities of gray.
* declines with advancing age.
* focusses on lip movements.
* is complex systems.
* is different from dog vision because there different sense of acuity
* is very much keyed to color
  - poor in relation to some animals

### complex psychosocial variable:

Social support
* appears to play a role in reducing caregiver stress.
* can also significantly and directly reduce stress
  - occur in many forms
* complex psychosocial variable.
* has a huge impact on reducing stress
  - major impact on an individual's and family's well-being
* is an important factor in the period after childbirth
  - community and identity
  - intrinsic to the relationships within African-American families
  - linked to parenting and toddler outcomes
  - regarded as a central to coping with stressful events
  - the environment everybody needs in order to be productive and contribute
* means having people to lean on during difficult times.
* mutual process.
* protects against many negative effects of stress.
* strong buffer against stress and even appears to strengthen the immune system.

### complex variable:

T k
* are atomic formulas.
* complex variable.