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Epidemics launch without analytics, business plans, or protocols, from simple principles to complex patterns and into networks of relationships. How many of us have been taught to trust the power of self-organization? After all, it doesn't seem to work in teenage closets or postholiday kitchens. Imagine if your team, your company, or your school self-organized? Oddly and truly, self-organization is a predominant form of getting things done in the universe and overwhelmingly so in the biological world. Leaders can harness self-organization effectively and easily if we are willing to understand its requirements.

Epidemics self-organize in complex settings by riffing endlessly on simple building blocks and clumping combinations into patterns. It is this clumping of simplicity that paradoxically underpins an epidemic's enviable adaptability and ability to thrive in a world of complexity. They just keep finding different combinations until they hit a winning formula, and they keep working it until something forces a change. In a complex world, simplicity turns out to be not just a brain saver but an essential design parameter for scaling both uniformity and infinite variety.