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Rick Nason

Rick Nason

Associate Professor of Finance at Dalhousie University's Rowe School of Business and author of "It's Not Complicated: The Art and Science of Complexity in Business."

Sep 30, 2026

RobinPANELIST
3:31
Um, what you're seeing about the journeys of, of leaders who are, um, able to be in a more emergent inquiry list, deep listening kind of way of being, uh, with some of the wicked issues that they're facing.
3:50
Yeah.
3:51
So, um, wow.
3:55
We do have eight hours for me to answer this question, don't we? Um, you've kind of hit the nail on the hat.
4:03
Okay.
4:03
Uh, And there's kind of a very short answer to this, and there's a much longer answer to this.
4:12
The short answer is, well, there's a pre-answer.

19 MINS LATER

DavidPANELIST
23:13
So I'm just wondering, Rick, what's your sense of how do we develop that capacity in human beings to deal with the complex?
10:29
day and age? Much, much more complex.
10:33
Much more complex.
10:35
So, complicate things, work by rules and laws.
10:40
And do the same thing, you get the same result.
10:44
But complex... come up when you have agents, you could think teenagers or people or work groups or companies or industries or even countries.
10:57
So you have agents who can interact and who can adapt.
11:05
And when you get those three properties together, you get a whole different set of outcomes or a whole different set of properties.

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25:15
So let me give

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