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“When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order”
– Ilya Prigogine
– Ilya Prigogine
Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
“When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
- Chemist and Nobel Laureate, Illya Prigogine
“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
These leaders need more than tools—they need generative spaces to step back, sense what’s emerging, and connect with others doing similar work.
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”