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A team, group or community will naturally fall into being a pseudo-community unless it is challenged to step into the unknown, where every member has to let go of their expertise, of their preconceptions and of their habits. Of course, it is always much easier for them to stay within their comfort zones and pretend to be a team, group or community.

Moreover, to secure this pretence, teams, groups and communities tend to order their reality to the nth degree. Everything gets agendarized, broken down into parts and then worked on. This tendency, we might say of indulgence, lets teams, groups or communities potter around in the known. The challenge is to let go of this order and embrace chaos. For on the other side of chaos lie simplicity and elegance. Paradoxically, though, we can only reach elegance by first wallowing in and secondly enjoying complexity.

Learning to work with chaos and complexity is a very different game altogether. It demands that each of us reveals our vulnerabilities, discloses our edges and truly opens ourselves to ‘not-knowing’. In short, we each need to be willing to get lost – to wander with wonder into the unknown. This is particularly hard for leaders, whose success is usually built upon their ability to know the answers and not get lost.