Quotes From This Episode

• “So when you have complexity, it opens up adaptive space. Adaptive space is a situation in which you have to do something different. So it creates an adaptive challenge, and it loosens up so you can get things done.”
• “So the rich interconnectivity means that there are rich interactions or dynamics that occur in the inner interconnections. And when things bump up against each other, they fundamentally transform each other.”
• “The reason it’s happening more now is because our world is so interconnected. So when you increase the base number of interconnections, then you increase the chance of a rich interconnection, which means we have more complexity.”
• “(Biden)  has to figure out how to enable an adaptive process. And what we found in our work is at the core of leading for adaptability is enabling the adaptive process. The adaptive process occurs when there’s a push for novelty, and there’s a push for stability. Those are that’s a polarity in organizations theory they talk about. It’s ambidexterity. It’s a polarity. So, or a paradox.”
• “So the bottom line is, Joe Biden has to come in and he has to enable that conflicting and connecting and enable the ideas from the different perspectives to clash together… So the challenge isn’t just creating the space for the ideas to conflict and connect, it’s how do you get it converted into a new order, which means new laws, new systems, etc.