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Jan 3, 2003

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them." --Albert Einstein

After any disaster, people and resources organize without planning into coordinated, purposeful activity. Everything happens quickly and a little miraculously. These self-organized efforts create effective responses long before official relief agencies can even make it to the scene. But organizational theorists have had a hard time explaining or replicating this concept. Now, Margaret Wheatley is doing some ground-breaking work in using quantum physics to explain how such systems work with identity, information and relationship.