Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- She notes that progress often looks like chaos before it is understood.
- In plain terms
- Progress often looks like chaos at first.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace chaos as part of progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you react to chaos?
- When have you seen progress emerge from chaos?
Another view
Sometimes chaos is just failure with no real progress.
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