1. Master Capacity Builder COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

2. For many years scientists saw the universe as a linear place
For many years scientists saw the universe as a linear place. One where simple rules of cause and effect apply. Scientists believed the universe and everything in it could be predicted and controlled. Despite using the most powerful computers in the world the weather remained unpredictable, despite intensive study and analysis ecosystems and immune systems did not behave as expected. Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory - a theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. A theory that maintains that the universe is full of systems, weather systems, immune systems, social systems etc and that these systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Hence complex adaptive systems.

3. CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY
Interdependency:
Simple Things Generate Complex Outcomes
Large Numbers of Units Come Together
Self-organization
Emergence
Initial Conditions

4. “I’m interested in change that challenges the whole system, being potentially disruptive.”
As an analogy, “reduce, reuse, and recycle does not challenge the system,” she explains. “Shifting the energy base challenges the system. It creates a sea change.”
—Frances Westley Getting to Maybe

5. SYSTEM OF COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
Developing a Creative Molecular Economy
Master Capacity Builders
Skills for Transformational Learning
Mobile Collaborative Governance

6. CAPACITIES FOR TRANSFORMATION
Openness to New Ideas
Seeing Connections Among Disparate Ideas
Broadband
A Culture That Supports Continuous Innovation

7. APPLYING COMPLEXITY THEORY TO COMMUNITIES
Parallel Processes
Adaptive Planning
Utilization of Interlocking Networks
Anticipating Emerging Ideas – Weak Signals
Looking for Access Points

8. COMMUNITY TRANSFORMERS
Send Articles to Peers
Have Chamber Build Capacities for a Creative Molecular Economy in Members
Establish a Futures Institute
Have Library Start Futures Dialogue Group

9. SHIFT IN PRINCIPLES Independence to Interdependence
Radical Individualism to Connected Individuality
Hyper-competition to Deeper Collaboration
Linear to Non-linear

10. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
—Albert Einstein

11. ADDITIONAL PRINCIPLES
Edge of Chaos
Fractals
Small World Networks
Tipping Point
Communities of the Future • Updated 2015