Harter+2006

=Abstract=

Leadership can be understood as the promise of simplification in response to complexity, with simplicity and complexity expressing the bounds of an inescapable tension. As subjective complexity increases, human systems experience pressure to simplify. Five strategies for simplification can be delineated, namely leadership as focal point, as reversion to compactness, as transformation to a new order, as disintegration of the system, and as pragmatic adaptation. Leaders would be advised to use some combination of each startegy to help systems cope with their strains.