The word complexor was coined by
Marcial Losada[Losada, M. and Heaphy, E. (2004)]
"The role of positivity and connectivity in the performance of business teams: A nonlinear dynamics model"
''American Behavioral Scientist'', 47 (6), pp. 740–765. derived from the words "complex order", to refer to chaotic
attractor
In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of states toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain c ...
s that are ''
strange
Strange may refer to:
Fiction
* Strange (comic book), a comic book limited series by Marvel Comics
* Strange (Marvel Comics), one of a pair of Marvel Comics characters known as The Strangers
* Adam Strange, a DC Comics superhero
* The title c ...
'' and thus have fractal structure (in contrast to
fixed point or
limit cycle attractors).
Losada claimed that these trajectories reflect the creativity and innovation that characterize high performance teams, while in contrast, low performance teams have trajectories in phase space that approach the limiting dynamics of point attractors.
[ The modeling behind this claim has been strongly criticised for flawed methodology and as an invalid application of Lorenz equations by Brown et al.][
]
- Brown, N. J. L., Sokal, A. D., & Friedman, H. L. (2013)
"The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: the critical positivity ratio"
''American Psychologist'', 68 (9), pp. 801-813 and by Andrés Navas.[Navas, A. (2011)]
''Images des Mathématiques''
References
External links
* Losada, M. (1999), "The complex dynamics of high performance teams", ''Mathematical and Computer Modelling'', 30 (9-10), pp. 179-192.
Chaos theory
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