HSD Paradigm

By Glenda Eoyang

Human systems dynamics is simple and practical. It also challenges fundamental assumptions about what we can know and how we can act with intention, even under conditions of radical uncertainty.

Human systems dynamics is simple and practical. It also challenges fundamental assumptions about what we can know and how we can act with intention, even under conditions of radical uncertainty. Based on principles of complexity science and chaos theory, HSD gives you hope for intentional action, even when you cannot predict or control outcomes. The result is a worldview that brings ontology and epistemology together into an adaptive praxis. This paper attempts to explain the philosophical roots of the work and demonstrate why Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic are breakthroughs in the capacity for individual and collective adaptation in uncertain situations.

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