cc99 - chaordic

 

The following is copied from http://www.chaordic.org/chaordic/chaordic.html.

 
The Chaordic® Alliance collaborates with groups committed to organizing themselves as chaords - systems functioning on the edge of chaos with enough order to give them pattern. After searching for a suitable word to describe such systems, Dee Hock coined one from 'chaos' and 'order:'

Definitions:

Chaord ®
(kay'ord) 1: any autocatalytic, self-regulating, adaptive, nonlinear, complex organism, organization, or system, whether physical, biological or social, the behavior of which harmoniously exhibits characteristics of both order and chaos. 2: an entity whose behavior exhibits patterns and probabilities not governed or explained by the behavior of its parts. 3: the fundamental organizing principle of nature and evolution.
Chaordic ®
(kay'ordic) 1: anything simultaneously orderly and chaotic. 2: patterned in a way dominated neither by order nor chaos. 3: existing in the phase between order and chaos.
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