Quantum Leadership: Succeeding in Interesting Times

I was sitting in my big easy chair, watching the World Cup on TV, when I realized that, as Nicoleta Gaciu1 observed, “Sports teams are surprisingly complex, functional structures that develop through interactions between players.” In a presentation on Physics and Leadership, she said successful teams are characterized by players who build “strong relationships with one another, which make the teams powerful and adaptable to changes and fluctuations.” 1 Furthermore, “the relationships, the information, and the communication are always different” because the players, places, and the moments are always different. “These living organizations are nonlinear and dynamic systems.”1