Law of Nature - The Manifesto
Law of Nature: Operating System

For 2+ Decades

Available solutions with high to highest impact get stuck in the system by default

Today

Our long-standing approaches to solving the growing problems we face have failed us

Future

Bureaucracy and fixed ways of thinking prevent us from solving the problems

Possibility

An enormous solution potential is waiting to be unleashed 

Why accept avoidable personal, project, organizational, or systemic suffering …

When …

Leadership Questions — anyone can ask — guide us to where the highest-impact solutions can be found

When …

The effective solution is — quite often — a simple solution package1

When professionals need only 1 to 6 hours2 to gain key insights into how structural gaps and conflicts in our long-standing solution approaches can be resolved

1 Compared to today’s complex and highly expensive solution attempts 

2 Time varies with interest. For  solution-design experts: about 6 hours for the entire Manifesto and Operating System 

Leadership Questions

When asked, they …

Guide to where highest-impact intervention possibilities and solutions can be found

Communicate a problem-solving and trust-restoring possibility

In group settings, they …

Become hard-to-ignore 

Law of Nature - Manifesto: Leadership Questions
Law of Nature - Manifesto: Leadership Questions

When missed, negotiated away, or overruled, they …

Communicate “too much of the same thinking. Won’t work.”

Re-occurrence leads to:

Structural failure:
Organisations & systems

Arrow up right

        Toubled organizations

Arrow up right

Resistance & opposition

Arrow up right

Lack of support

Arrow up right

Lack of interest 

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Current Situation

Despite enormous solution potential waiting to be unlocked, our long-standing solution approaches have failed us for more than two decades

Leaderhip Questions

Where is the Listening to what worked where our long-standing solution approaches failed us?

Where is the Education and Guidance on how to navigate through complex situations toward simple yet highest-impact solutions?

The co-creators of this Manifesto found no one in an influential or decision-making position able to respond at a level sufficient to solve the problems these questions address

Not in Public Services 

Not in Business 

Not in Science

Hands-on experience with what actually worked guided the co-creators toward:

The following Leadership Questions 

Available Solutions

What anyone involved or impacted can do

What can Employees, Managers, Patients, and Citizens DO to get impactful solutions accepted for themselves, at work, in their environment, and beyond?

What do Decision-Makers REALLY NEED to make the problem-solving decisions?

What do Initiatives REALLY NEED to get their impactful solutions through the systems?

We have a Polycrisis: Where Is the Polymath Approach?

Applicability

Why keep investing in different solution attempts—by industry, by field, by challenge—and get stuck, when the complexity and dependencies involved require the same foundations?

This initiative’s goal is to provide the same foundations for all

  • Aviation
  • Business services
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Health Services
  • IT
  • Public services
  • Manufacturing
  • Science
  • Social enterprises

     And more

  • Agility 
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Best practices & Methods
  • Business Administration
  • Education
  • Economy
  • Finance
  • Health
  • Human Resources
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Innovation
  • Knowledge Management
  • Land use
  • Management
  • Natural Earth Systems
  • Neuroscience
  • Organisations
  • Politics
  • Project Management
  • Psychology
  • Research
  • SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Societal matters
  • System thinking
  • Youth & Children

      And more

  • Agile yet reliable decision-making
  • Artificial Intelligence: Downside prevention
  • Automation
    • Beneficial versus counterproductive 
  • Bureaucracy & Complexity reduction
  • Cooperation & Co-creation
  • Circular economies: Making them happen
  • Education and skill gaps
  • Fixed ways of thinking & Behaviour
  • Food security
  • Health of
    • People
    • Projects, organizations and  environments
    • Planet
  • Innovation
    • High(est)-impact getting stuck by default
    • Out-of-the-box, social and organizational  
  • Marine life
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Trust: (Re-)creating trust
  • Truth finding
  • Productivity improvements
  • Project failure rates far to high
  • SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Social and organisational innovation needs
  • Water security

       And more

How Does This Help Me, My Initiative, Organization, or System?

Leadership Questions & Solution Possibilities

The following groups experience the consequences of the unsolved problems differently,
yet each has intervention possibilities that strengthen those of others

Compare this with today’s chaos of guidance and directions versus

Chaos of guidance and directions
Chaos of guidance and directions

… each group’s Intervention Possibilities actually strengthen those of other groups =

Common path strengthening
Common path strengthening

Please select the groups of interest:

Individuals

Employees

→ Long hours, ongoing stress, or burnout

→ Productive positions being removed?

→ More of the same efficiency or cost-savings projects and reorganizations that:

  • Have failed to deliver the needed results?
  • Are used to finance the unnecessary costs of bureaucracy, complexity, and project failure rates far too high?

→  Common yet solvable root causes of these situations remain unaddressed?

Together with your colleagues, you can ask this Leadership Question and guide professionals to where more details can be found.

More in the Call to Contribute section below

→ Unnecessary symptom treatment and suffering for complex health matters¹ like mental matters?

→ Paying twice: first through your insurance for treatments that fail to deliver needed results, and a second time for unsupported treatments that deliver the needed results?

→ Ever-increasing Health Services bills?

→ “More-of-the-same” research for complex health matters through our donations and taxes?

1 Complex physical activities inside the body, and mental matters such as dyslexia, ADHD, and autism

→ There are strong patterns of unsupported treatments delivering needed results after supported treatments have failed

→ Research attempts for these unsupported treatments get stuck because current research models are unfit for complex matters

→ There can be no scientific proof because of the previous point

→ The suffering, costs, and risks of such treatments can be (far) lower than those of supported treatments

For treatment decisions on complex health matters, you can ask for a list of therapies showing the research status of accepted therapies and of therapies that delivered needed results where accepted treatments failed.

More information: see the Health Services Call to Action (when released),  Tutorials 1 and 2, and the first 5 minutes of Tutorial 3.4.5.

You can point professionals to the Health Services group below.  

In support of getting this research done, you can ask:

What are charities and research funders doing to get result-delivering therapies researched with models suited for complex health matters?

More in the Call to Contribute section below

Citizens

→ The consequences of unsolved problems being offloaded to the weakest,

and this giving negative developments — which we thought were a matter of the past — the space to rise again?

→ Quite often, simple solutions of the highest-impact are waiting to be unleashed?

You could ask one or the other Leadership Question to get root-cause treatment going in your environment — no further knowledge required

and invite others to do the same

More in the Call to Contribute section below.

Innovators, Initiative/Project Owners

→ Extensive fire fighting?

→ Ongoing stress and burnout?

→ Getting stuck in the system?

→ Friction with clients, colleagues, executives, and funders?

→ The costs this creates

→ Much of this can be prevented EARLY ON?

By doing this Health Check — the Health Check containing only 17 intervention possibilities grounded in common, solvable root causes typically hidden deep in the systems

By creating Executable Solution Frameworks EARLY ON (explained in Tutorial 3.4.2)

By complementing today’s innovation path — typically designed for engineering-type solutions and, hence, stable situations — with a complementary innovation path designed for solutions to complex and dynamic situations (more in Tutorial 3.4.4)

Decision-Makers

→ Lack of interest, resistance, and opposition in target audiences through …

continued use of best practices, frameworks, models, trends, and ways of thinking that work well for stable environments like factories, but …

have failed — for more than two decades — to solve complex problems?

Typically missing:

  • The solvable root causes of the highest damage — at the system levels
  • Executability, scalability, and value realization at the system levels
  • Adherence to relevant Laws of Nature
  • How Einstein, Newton, and Darwin found deep insights and Laws of Nature to highly complex matters

→ Listening to what worked where our long-standing approaches failed could provide the breakthrough guidance?

This webpage gives immediate access to a co-created knowledge base built from what worked where long-standing solution approaches failed

Quick ways to get started:

Review relevant groups in this section — especially those listed under ‘All Groups…

Ask and respond to Leadership Questions such as those above, in this section, in the Calls to Action, the Tutorials, and the Leadership Questions – For Specific Situtions.

Doing this Health Check—only 17 check points—for new and troubled projects, innovations, and organizations

→ Reporting at the surface?

→ Repeating narratives that treat symptoms?

→ More of the same that missed getting to the root causes and the available solutions of our colossal problems?

→ The real story may be that the solvable root causes of our colossal problems — and the impactful solutions they lead to — have been missed for decades.

They may be waiting to be unlocked, simply because our long-standing models, decision-making, and solution approaches were designed for stable situations and, hence, are unable to handle solutions designed for today’s complex and constantly changing realities.

To begin unlocking what has been missed for decades, just sign up for our Calls to Action (under development) through our Newsletter and/or our  YouTube Channel

Don’t want to wait? 

You can familiarize yourself right away with this homepage, the Fundamental Level of the Manifesto, and the complementary Operating System

Investors and Funders

→ Costly fire fighting,

→ Expensive corrections, 

→ Foreseeable failure?

→ Much of this can be prevented and success rates increased substantially with small efforts early on

→ Executable Solution Frameworks can be identified through a few workshops early on

By asking to verify the project against this Health Check — the Health Check containing only 17 check points grounded in common, solvable root causes typically hidden deep in the systems

By complementing today’s innovation processes — typically designed for engineering-type solutions and, hence, stable situation — with a complementary innovation process designed for complex and dynamic situations (more in Tutorial 3.4.4)

By requiring Executable Solution Frameworks EARLY ON (explained in Tutorial 3.4.2)

Executives

→ Efficiency-improvement approaches that can be state-of-the-art practices for stable environments, but have failed — for more than two decades — with complex challenges

AND

  • Keep project failure rates at unacceptable levels,
  • Worsen bureaucracy and complexity,
  • Miss solvable root causes of failure —  because they are located outside the boundaries of the failed approaches, 
  • The sum of this weaken competitive positions and risk company survival

→ A simple policy provides the highest-impact solution possibility to: 

  • Select practices that work well for stable situations and different practices for complex situations
  • Resolve unnecessary internal bureaucracy, complexity, and project failure rates at their most damaging yet solvable root cause 

 → Various further solution possibilities with the highest impact at the lowest costs and risks are waiting to be released

 → This policy provides one of the foundations required for agile yet reliable decision-making across the Enterprise, and for a strong competitive position.

 → The existing bureaucracy can be used to get it implemented

You could create a position with the goals to stop the waste of budgets and resources on approaches that predictably fail, and to enable impactful solutions to get through the system again.

You and your advisors could educate yourselves right away on:

Communication techniques that worked well earlier, but now trigger “won’t work” conclusions in target audiences

and on

how highest impact solutions at the lowest costs and risks for complex matters been found repeatedly? 

More under ‘All Groups …‘. 

You could instruct your advisors and experts to do quick Health Checks — only 17 check points grounded in common, solvable root causes typically hidden deep in the systems

To restore trust quickly, you could — in combination with solutions to the most-damaging root causes — apply Adaptive Integrity of Manifesto intervention 7.B 

Politicians

→ To target audiences “This has been tried before, it won’t work” through expressions, actions, priorities, or decisions that worked well a few years ago but are now associated with “failure ahead”:

  • Too much of the same thinking that created the colossal problems we face
  • Symptom treatment
  • Conflicts with relevant Laws of Nature 
  • Environments changing faster than
    • Promises can be delivered to
    • Processes, regulations, and documentation can be updated
    • IT-tools can be adjusted

And thereby making it impossible to restore trust, let alone solve the above problems?

→ Most damaging root causes — located outside the boundaries of long-standing approaches — can actually be resolved?

→ Listening to what is REALLY NEEDED is on its way to becoming the benchmark for effective communication?

→ A simple policy could:

  • Enable people to select long-standing approaches when they continue to work well, and to switch to practices required for complex situations
  • Provide the highest-impact solutions at the lowest costs and risks to reduce exponentially grown bureaucracy and complexity, as well as high project failure rates, to healthy levels

Adaptive Integrity provides a quick way to restore lost trust — when applied together with solutions addressing solvable root causes of the highest damage

You could require the creation of a position with the explicit mandate to stop the waste of budgets and resources on approaches that predictably fail, and to enable impactful solutions to get through the system again

You and your advisors could educate yourselves right away on:

Communication techniques that worked well earlier, but now trigger “won’t work” conclusions in target audiences

and on:

How highest impact solutions at the lowest costs and risks for complex matters have been found repeatedly.

More under  ‘All Groups …‘.

You could require projects and decisions to be verified against this this Health Check — containing only 17 intervention possibilities grounded in common, solvable root causes typically hidden deep within systems

To restore trust quickly, you could — in combination with solutions to the most-damaging root causes — apply Adaptive Integrity of Manifesto intervention 7.B 

All Groups — Except Employees, Patients, and Citizens

Communication

→ To target audiences “This has been tried before, it won’t work”?

Through:

  • Expressions and practices whose effect has shifted from getting people on board a few years ago to “This won’t work” today
    — let’s call these Loaded Expressions.
  • One-way presentations, “let’s connect” or “let’s share”, webpages, etc.
    — while essential elements required to make it work are missing

→ This can be prevented through: 

Letting go of Loaded Expressions

Initiative owners, decision-makers, and their experts responding to relevant Leadership Questions from this page, the Manifesto itself, the Leadership Questions – For Specific Situtions, and —

when additional information is desirable — from relevant Calls to ActionTutorials, and Laws of Nature

Authentic Listening and Adaptive Integrity – practices on their way to becoming required to restore trust (see Manifesto Intervention 7.B)

Doing this Health Check for your initiative, project or movement — a Health Check containing only 17 checkpoints grounded in common, solvable root causes typically hidden deep in the systems

→ Predicatable project failure by:

  • Breaking complex problems into parts and leaving solvable external obstacles, gaps, and conflicts unresolved?
Break-into-parts consequences
  • Applying exact and linear practices when open and non-linear practices are required (and the other way around)

→ AND this worsening the obstacles that subsequent solution attempts must overcome

  • The most damaging yet SOLVABLE root causes of failure remain unsolved — because they lie outside the parts receiving priority and funding
  • Large groups conclude “too much of the same thinking that was tried earlier. This won’t work” 
  • Problems believed to be solved re-open later
  • Individuals with the skill set required to solve complex problems are — unintentionally — excluded by vacancy descriptions and job-advancement processes (polymaths, neurodiverse individuals, etc.)
  • Decision-making processes overwrite relevant Laws of Nature day in and day out — something Nature does not allow (see sections below, Tutorials 1 and 2, and Laws of Nature)
  • Non-productive costs grow exponentially (see Tutorials 1 to 3.3
  • Competitive positions weaken

After more than two decades of Level 1 and Level 2 consequences:

  • Within organizations and among funding organizations, the support base required for impactful solutions to complex problems is missing by default, due to the Level 2 skill-set consequence
  • Available solutions and innovations with the highest impact get:
    • Rejected at the front door or stuck when scaled up
    • Banned because getting stuck is seen as failure
  • Companies struggle for survival — and no realistic way out
  • Countries lose competitive positions

→ Highest-impact solutions — at the lowest costs and risks — are waiting to be unleashed:

Through executives, managers, experts, innovators, and project managers who want to become Next Generation Leaders, by:

Using what worked where our long-standing solution approaches failed, and keeping what continues to work well.

By asking and responding to Leadership Questions such as those above, in this section, in the Calls to Action, the Tutorials, and the Leadership Questions – For Specific Situtions.

By inviting individuals with the Skill Set for Solving Complex Problems into influential and decision-making positions and providing an environment where exact/linear. More in Tutorial 3.4.3 and Leadership Questions 5.#.#

By complementing linear innovation processes with an innovation process suited for complex matters. More in Tutorial 3.4.4

By creating research models suited for complex matters. These models based on fundamental principles of science overruling today’s research models.

More in Manifesto Intervention 4.A: FOCUS ON HIGHEST IMPACT:  Fundamental principles of science requiring…  and Tutorial 3.4.5.

Initiatives, Organizations, and Systems

Initiatives and Movements

→ Waste resources trying to retain volunteers and make a declining support base grow again?

Demand that decision-makers make the problem-solving decisions WHEN THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW:

  1. The experts and institutions — expected to provide what decision-makers and initiatives REALLY NEEDhave been unable to deliver this guidance
  2. The ability to listen to what delivered needed results where our long-standing solution approaches failed has been lost
  3. Individuals with the skill set for solving complex problems have been excluded by hiring and job-advancement processes for two decades

→ Use practices and communication techniques that signal “more of the same that has been tried before”?

  • Expressions and practices that — only a few years ago — brought people on board, but are now associated with “failure likely”
  • Assuming that what worked in a small environment, or in a world gone by, will also work in today’s highly complex environments
  • Initiative design and communications based on studies suggesting that getting x% of the target audience on board is sufficient for a movement to succeed — while recent movement attempts have become stuck in the system by default

Get stuck in the system?

→ There is an “easy” way to guide decision-makers and their advisors to:

  • Where they can find high-to-highest impact solutions
  • Make the problem-solving decisions

→ Your Initiative or Movement could be designed for executability, scalability, and value realization at the desired system level — and aligned with today’s realities

The easy way:

Inviting your supporters, associated initiatives, and other movements to bring relevant Leadership Questions — provided here in this section for various groups,  and here for specific situationsdirectly into the decision-making of organizations.

For more information, see Levels 1 & 2 in the Call to Contribute section below.  

To avoid ‘more of the same’ conclusions, see Communication under All Groups in this section.

Initiative and movement design through:

This Health Check and creating an Executable Solution Framework EARLY ON, or when a trouble situation needs to be resolved (explained in Tutorial 3.4.2)

→ The competitive position through the exponential growth of non-productive matters such as:

  • A crippling internal bureaucracy
  • High project failure rates
  • An environment changing quicker than rules, documentation, processes, and IT-tools can be updated
  • A broken communication bridge between headquarters, departments, and locations — preventing
    • The Enterprise knowledge from being unlocked,
    • Agile yet reliable decisions from being made across departments
  • The lost ability to solve complex problems
  • Impactful innovations being excluded by the innovation process

→ Impactful solutions to all these matters are available today

→ You are free to use solution elements from this Manifesto initiative, your own, or those of third parties

See specific challenges under ‘All Groups‘ in this section and the Manifesto and Operating System 

Public Services

→ Capacity bottlenecks ‘everywhere’?

→ High project failure rates?

→ A crippling bureaucracy?

→ The lost ability to solve complex problems?

→ Impactful solutions and innovations being excluded by processes and regulations designed for stable situations — while the environment is complex and changes quickly?

→ Impactful solutions to all these matters are available today — including a simple directive for root-cause treatment of unnecessary bureaucracy, complexity, and high project failure rates, 

… thereby freeing up resources and budget for the tasks public services are expected to provide

While you are free to use your own or third party solution elements:

See specific challenges under ‘All Groups‘ in this section and the Manifesto and Operating System 

→ Ever-increasing cost savings pressures?

→ Structural Capacity Bottlenecks ‘everywhere’?

→ Medical positions being reduced to finance unnecessary bureaucracy?

→ Giving up on patients with complex health matters, or limiting care to symptom treatment — while far too many of these patients found treatments outside official Health Services that deliver the needed results?

This caused by:

  • Research models based on exact and linear practices, while the research subject is complex1
  • These research models overruling fundamental principles of science when the research challenge is complex1:
    • Applying Einstein–Newton–Dawin practices 
    • Applying relevant Laws of Nature — when they cannot be expressed in exact ways
    • Seeking the truth.
      Through Leadership Questions such as: Why do patients find treatments that deliver the needed results after Health Services have failed?

Prof. Michael Fitzgerald, psychiatrist and Einstein-Newton-Darwin researcher: “The science model we have at the moment is not fit for purpose” 2

→ Patients paying twice: through their insurances for treatments failing to deliver needed results, and a second time for unsupported treatments delivering the needed results?

→ The indirect suffering and the enormous costs of unnecessary mental matters — from productivity loss at work up to vandalism, crime, and imprisonment?

→ Two huge sources to

  • Reduce the suffering of patients and Health Services professionals
  • Reduce the unnecessary 
  • Re-create healthy Health Services

are waiting to be unlocked through:

  1. Reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and Capacity Bottlenecks drastically — at their most damaging yet solvable root cause — through a simple policy, and further practices applied to avoid or reduce traffic jams on the road, in computers, and many other situations
  2. Treatments with strong patterns of delivering needed results where accepted treatments failed 2

By applying relevant practices of the Tipping Point and Capacity Bottleneck Laws of Nature, as outlined further down, and in Tutorials 1 to 3.3

By responding to the Health Call to Action (when available): an example of extreme treatment costs, extreme suffering, and long-term treatment — versus the patient fully recovered within months and having to pay for that treatment himself.

By developing research models suited for complex matters through applying the overruled principles of science.

For a model proposal see Tutorial 3.4.5 and for the missing principles Manifesto intervention 4.A 

By responding to specific challenges under ‘All Groups‘ in this section and relevant elements of the Manifesto and Operating System 

1 See Tutorials 1, 2 and 3.4.5 
2 Michael Fitzgerald. Trinity College. Dublin. Retired. In Manifesto Tutorial 2.

Science

→ “Do not trust science”? 

Through:

1. 

Theoretical models — supposed to address complex matters — having failed1 for more than two decades to:

  • Demonstrate executability, scalability, and system-level value realization in organizations and systems
  • Listen to the solvable root causes of the highest damage — at the system levels,
  • Listen to what delivered needed results where the long-standing models failed 
  • Identify and respond to Leadership Questions to the levels required 

2. 

Fundamental principles of science2 being overruled when the problem to solve involves complex matters

3. 

Scientists demanding that scientific facts be adhered to in this very situation

And this undermining the credibility of science at large?

→ Lost trust can be restored 

By solving points 1 to 3:

  • To the levels required for executability, scalability, and system-level value realization in organizations and systems
  • At the speed and with the priorities demanded by the colossal problems around us

Through: see ‘All Groups…

1 Failure of models:

2 Fundamental principles of science:

What you can do

Our Call to Contribute — At Any Level That Feels Right

Let’s create an irresistible force by bringing Leadership Questions directly into decision-making — within your environment and across the globe

Through

Simply sharing Calls to Action providing Leadership Questions anyone can ask 

Contribution a piece
Contribution a piece

Up to

Co-creation of impactful solution packages

You can simply:

Want to know how missing the Tipping Point Law may impact your life? Watch Tutorials 1 and 2   

Level 2

When you suspect unnecessary suffering, no one taking on responsibility, or “too much of the same thinking that was tried before” — you can ask one or a few Leadership Questions by:

  • Selecting from typically relevant Leadership Questions

Has the Law of Nature Manifesto’s Health Check been done?

The Health Check —available for immedate download— contains only 17 checkpoints based on common lessons learned and solvable root causes hiding below the surface 

Will the decision to be made improve or worsen the health of people, the organization, the environment, or the planet?

What Laws of Nature could apply?
What practices do they demand?

The Tipping Point and Capacity Bottleneck laws are likely to be relevant with bureaucracy and complex challenges – more in Tutorials 1 and 2

Optional

Level 3

At this level, the door to fresh thinking is opened. In your environment, you ask relevant Leadership Questions that guide decision-makers, advisors, and experts toward fresh insights and highest-impact solutions — while sparking meaningful dialogue. You might want to make it visible by doing the exercise in Tutorial 3.3.

You are free to use your own approaches, practices, and tools, or those of third parties. However, there are a few requirements:

  • Relevant root causes, gaps, and conflicts of this Manifesto initiative, as well as environment-specific ones are addressed
  • What is being done is in line with relevant Laws of Nature, Core Human Values, and Essential Behaviours
  • The Integrity Law and its practice, Adaptive Integrity, are applied

A personal goal could be:

  • Get a problem-solving activity or project initiated

Direct links …

Level 4

At Level 4, an Executable Solution Framework is co-created for a specific task or project. This can be done by yourself or together with individuals who have the necessary experience and skills.

In addition to Level 3, the following requirements apply:

  • The Solution Framework includes Manifesto- and Operating System-based education and coaching needs (or third-party alternatives that meet these requirements) for involved decision-makers, their advisors, task or project members, as well as target audiences
  • The Solution Framework is confirmed by knowledgeable representatives of the groups involved and impacted as executable and scalable, and there is reasonable certainty that the value proposition will materialize at the desired system level.

Your goals could be

  • Get an Executable Solution Framework created
  • Obtain approval for project design and execution

Direct links …

Level 5

Why accepting:

  • Ongoing firefighting, stress, and burnout
  • High failure rates that drain time and resources
  • A crippling bureaucracy and capacity bottlenecks everywhere — like skill shortages
  • Blame, frustration, and shame
  • Risks to your role and credibility
  • What delivered needed results where our long-standing solution approaches failed us
  • A simple policy to reduce bureaucracy, capacity bottlenecks, and high project failure rates at their most damaging root cause
  • Easy-to-apply Laws of Nature — often highest-impact solutions at a fraction of the usual costs and risks

1.

Invest 2–5 hours to explore this homepage, the intervention and solution possibilities under the menu options Manifesto and Operating System, and watch the tutorials that may be relevant

2.

Get somebody with the mindset of “applying what worked where our long-standing solution attempts failed us” into a leading position, and take on the responsibility to:

  • Free up time, resources, and budgets wasted by approaches optimized for a world gone by — but keep what works well
  • Guide the organization toward “what has worked where our long-standing approaches have failed” — as opposed to “what is the best practice, model, or framework?”

Or become this person yourself.

3.

This person has the skill set to solve complex problems — or is coached by someone who does

Direct links…

Why Our Long-Standing Solution Approaches Failed Us

Most damaging — yet solvable — Root Causes remain unresolved

Iceberg and Root Causes
Iceberg and Root Causes
  • The one-word policy to solve the crippling bureaucracy at its most damaging root cause is missing

By publishing the word and its implications as a top-level policy, bureaucracy itself can be used to bring it into decision-making at all levels — and to drastically reduce bureaucracy to healthy levels.

Before the word can be made available, its context needs to be established. This is provided through the Manifesto’s tutorials.

  • More Root Causes below

Popular expressions trigger:
Same Thinking — Won’t Work

Disbelief
Disbelief

These expressions may still work for the own group, but trigger “won’t work” when used with other groups.

As soon as three or more groups have to work together, adjusting the expressions to each target group no longer works.

Example groups 

  • Initiatives and movements: let’s connect or share, start small and grow, by the heart, co-create
  • Employees: common sense, agile decisions, root cause
  • Decision-makers, experts, and advisors: decisions by money, break into parts, method, and proof

What works in small environments gets stuck when scaled up.

Climbing over wall versus mountain
Climbing over wall versus mountain

Solutions, models, best practices, and IT tools are typically designed for a few parts of a complex problem — and miss the mountains of obstacles that appear when scaled up.

The same root causes
across industries, fields, and subjects

Quite often, simple solution possibilities
 are waiting to be used

Needed: A Reliable Foundation to Create a Common Path

Common path strengthening
Common path strengthening

A Manifesto

Providing the highest-impact
intervention possibilities

An Operating System 

Like Windows, Android, or iOS — but enabling healthy societal, organizational, and planetary systems

Based on …

Something powerful enough that it cannot be rejected

Intervening where …

The highest impact can be made at the lowest costs and risks — at the system level

Complete enough …

To turn today’s chaos of guidance and directions into a common path

Enabling decision-makers and initiative owners to …

Make the problem-solving decisions

Get impactful solutions through the systems with high speed and reliability

Emile van Essen, Founding Chair of World Sustainability Fund:

As far as I know, this is the only initiative worldwide responding to the following at the level required:

  1. What prevents us from unleashing the available solutions?
  2. Where and how do we have to intervene to unleash the solutions of high-to-highest impact within the deadlines set by Nature and deadlines agreed on by international treaties?

Nature’s Guidance

Nature
Nature

.

We Are All Part of Nature

So are the organizations we work for, the environments around us, and the systems we have created

Nature thrives when the environment is healthy

Nature’s Laws are present or occur

Nature’s Laws cannot be overruled, ignored, negotiated away, or changed by human will

It does not matter whether these Laws still need to be identified, require adjustment to the latest findings, or are expressed in exact, verbal, or illustrative ways — they are present or occur

No mathematics is needed for the main Laws
 guiding us out of the Polycrisis 

The end of the tunnel
The end of the tunnel

.

A few Laws of Nature — overruled, denied, or overlooked — guide us out of the devastating situation

The only solution left and powerful enough to solve the existential threats we face may be:

The (re-)integration of relevant Laws of Nature
in Decision-Making

Before Nature’s guidance can be used

Action Paths

Our colossal problems — waiting to be solved

When mainstream decision-making changed to

decision-making by hard numbers, money, and linear practices ‘only,’

information of critical importance — that could not be expressed this way — became invisible and treated as irrelevant.

Alongside high failure rates, stress, and burnout, this led to so-called management mistakes and managers being blamed — while they and their advising experts believed they were applying state-of-the-art practices.

This is a most damaging Root Cause and not solvable as such. Solvable Root Causes are required: see Root Causes 2 and 3.

These mainstream practices are hereafter referenced as exact practices

In the wake of Root Cause 1, we lost the ability to apply two groups of Laws that match the above criteria for Laws of Nature

  • Laws from physics, chemistry, etc. — when a Tipping Point of Complexity is crossed, and they can no longer be expressed through exact practices 
  • Laws impossible to express in exact ways

Solvable Root Causes

The Tipping Point Law of Nature applied to complex matters: missing ‘everywhere’ — see One Law of Nature Stands Above All Others below 

The missing education of decision-makers and experts in the Laws of Nature relevant to their fields — when these Laws cannot be expressed in exact ways

In the wake of Root Cause 1, these solvable Root Causes emerged:

Individuals with the skill set to solve complex problems have been — unintentionally — excluded from hiring and job-advancement processes for two decades

Our children — who may have developed several such skills — have been, and continue to be, directed away from this skill set and into the exact skill set dominating our educational systems

This has led to few — or no — individuals in influential and decision-making positions with the ability to see highly effective solutions and get them through the systems.

Example

  1. A public call is received for impactful or innovative solutions. It says out-of-the-box welcome.
  2. A submission follows after days or weeks of effort.
  3. Standard response: “Interesting! Can you now adjust it so it fits our processes and ways of thinking?”
  4. Stuck in the system

How this Root Cause can be solved: see in Manifesto Tutorial 3.4.3.

With water — and in countless other situations — we apply this Law without realizing it is, in fact, a Law of Nature. 

Tipping Point

The Tipping Point Law:

“When a Tipping Point is crossed, something fundamental changes”

How we apply this Law in organizations

We adjust our practices according to the state — solid, liquid, or gas. The same applies to other substances

Further Tipping Points:

  • Those of climate change
  • When the demand for a resource grows beyond its capacity (→ traffic jams, full agendas, waiting lists, etc.)
  • When well-working communication practices turn into “too much of the same thinking, won’t work”

Other expressions for Tipping Points:

  • Phase shifts
  • Break points
  • Inflection points
  • Trigger points
Tipping Points of Water

Beyond the Tipping Points of increasing Complexity, the Tipping Point Law demands different practices. 

Practices beyond Tipping Points
Tipping Points for organizations

Until about the turn of the century, switching to the suited practices happened automatically. It happened through practices that used to be integral to decision-making when exact practices could not provide reliable outcomes. These practices were called Common (Business) Sense and Intuition.

When Root Causes 1 to 3 manifested themselves

Applying exact practices beyond the Level 1 and even Level 2 Tipping Points became common. This happened because the Tipping Point Law was not identified as a Law of Nature — let alone for complexity.

This led to the new trends of agility and self-organization, with their open and non-linear practices. However, those approaches also missed the Tipping Points. They are now criticized just as much as the traditional best practices and models.

Practices beyond Tipping Points
Tipping Points for organizations

The systems — within which the problems at the top of this page must be solved — are now beyond the Level-2 Tipping Point.

 

Beyond this Tipping Point, the systems …

  • Reject solvable Root Causes of the highest damage from being seen, accepted, and solved
  • Reject high-to-highest impact solutions
  • Drain yet more budget, time, and resources from the small and zero-budget initiatives providing high- to highest-impact solutions
Consequences of Tipping Points missed

Patterns of systems and organizations being beyond the Level-2 Tipping Point:

  • Ongoing cost-saving pressures and regular reorganizations
  • Productive people losing their jobs; vacated productive positions being removed
  • Unsolved problems offloaded to the weakest in the system
  • Divided populations

Effort and cost consequences & Solution Possibility

The Tipping Point and Capacity Bottleneck Laws of Nature provide the practices needed to get this solved. A single word tells when a switch from exact / linear practices to open practices is needed — and when the reverse applies.

Polymathic - Team appraoch

By setting boundaries and requirements, our long-standing approaches have limited solution possibilities. 

In contrast, the Polymath Approach goes beyond these limitations. By drawing on complex bodies of knowledge spanning multiple fields and subjects, it seeks the highest-impact solutions for the whole of a problem.

For more information, see Wikipedia and Manifesto Tutorial 3.4.3  

For complex and systemic matters, we seek what delivers the greater value. The Tipping Point Law of Nature guides to when which type of practice is required. Because both complex and non-complex situations coexist within complex environments, both types of practices are necessary.

Unsure which type to apply? Simply follow this guidance:

Listening to what is REALLY NEEDED in TODAY’s WORLD to solve the growing problems we face

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Applying what worked in a world gone by

Listening to WHAT WORKED where our long-standing solution approaches failed us

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Applying established models, best practices, frameworks, tools, trends, and long-standing ways of thinking

Taking on responsibility for the whole — at the system level

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Partial solutions that leave too many obstacles, gaps and conflicts unsolved

Seeking the exact and verbal rules of the highest impact — at the highest system level

OVER

Seeking exact rules or rules for a part

Designing Executable Solution Frameworks of high-to-highest impact for the system level — FROM THE BEGINNING

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Designing solutions for a part and assuming what works in a part can be scaled up in complex environments 

The Law of Nature Manifesto & Operating System: Overview 

(LoN-OS)

Various practices to open fixed ways of thinking

Some visible, others emerging through the interactions between Manifesto and OS elements

A knowledge base of concise yet highest-impact insights and solutions

Natural process flows, Core Human Values, Essential Behaviours, etc.

Select what is relevant for the situation at hand — ignore the rest

Available from this webpage for immediate use

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The Manifesto's Co-Creators

A group of independent individuals with extensive experience in what delivered needed results where our long-standing solution approaches failed us.

When they could not find anyone in businesses, public services, or universities responding at the levels required — for making impactful solutions executable, scalable, and durable at the system levels — they took on the challenge. It led to the LoN Manifesto + Operating System.

Netherlands, Germany

Polymath 
Initiator and main Analyst of the Manifesto
Consultant, Inventor 

Arti Ahluwalia

India

Polymath
Coordinator of Publications UN Commons Cluster NGO Major Group
Ecocivilisation Country Chair India
Director at Dimex India

Stephanie Barnes

Canada

Creativity for doing things differently

Sharon Bowes

Canada

Life of Meaning Strategist
Nature’s Wisdom Strategist

Prof. Manuel Casanova

United States

SmartState Endowed Chair in Childhood Translational Neurotherapeutics & Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Psychiatry (retired)

Margie Charpentier

Netherlands

Background support and out-of-the-box contributions

Netherlands

Former CEO
Sustainocracy: Initiative owner and author

Belgium

Journalist
Founder of Zebraha

Emma de Klerk

Netherlands

Translater
Creative Illustrator

Jennifer Fiedler

United States

Coach
Catalyst 
Filmmaking Mentor

Prof. Michael Fitzgerald

Ireland

Einstein-Newton-Darwin Researcher
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (retired)

James N. Rose

United States

Biologist (retired)
General Systems Analyst
Developer of Integrity Paradigm

Elly Rijnierse

Netherlands

Senior Advisor 
Civic Leadership and democratisation in Integrated Area Development

Ukpeme Okon

United States, Nigeria

Barrister
Ambassador for Peace

Catherine Schoendorff

Germany, France

C-Suite Coach
Former CEO

John Scholtz

Netherlands

Program Manager
Passion for sustainability

Serene Seng

Singapore

Executive Coach
Speaker

Dr. Mahendra Shah

Indonesia

Director
Co-author UN-IIASA climate change report 2002
Former IIASA scientist

Adina Tarry

United Kingdom

Polymath
Organisation & Leadership Development, HRM Strategy, Quality & Process management, Business & Consumer Psychologist, Mentor, Master Coach & Supervisor, Lecturer, Author, Speaker

Marion van den Eijnden

Netherlands

Avatar Master
Former Occupational Therapist

Harry van der Velde

Netherlands

Holistic analysis and visualization of organizational issues
Owner, ZICHT Visie en Verbeelding

Emile (Glans) Van Essen

Netherlands

Founding Chair WORLD SUSTAINABILITY FUND 
Polymath
Many sustainability projects across the globe have received (large) funds. Emile became a co-creator when he discovered that the Law of Nature Manifesto was addressing many of the obstacles undermining the projects funded and he didn’t see anyone else doing this.