25 Aanbevelens van KaosProjects Amsterdam

(overgenomen van KaosPilots Århus)

Embrace chaos!

Chaos is the traditional organisations’ word for the form of order that they don't understand – yet.

Be lustful!

Your lust leads your will.

Without lust, nothing happens.

Search blindly!

If you always know what you’re looking for, you’ll never be surprised.

Sit less!

You can’t leap from a sitting position. When you move your body, you also move your thoughts.

Wipe out habits!

If you do what you always do, you’ll just get more of what you already have.

As Einstein said, "We can’t solve a problem with the same thoughts as those with which the problem was made."

Give the best away!

Share with everyone and they’ll come back for more.

And they’re sure to bring you something too.

Drop plans!

Plan less – allow for free space

Only where there isn’t anything can something new occur.

Be good to others!

In others’ eyes you always belong to "the others".

Beware those who are perfect!

They are extremely careful and afraid of mistakes.

Change does not happen without the courage to make mistakes.

Many inventions are the result of mistakes.

Be greedy!

The world is boundless,

Its variations infinite,

And human resources inexhaustible.

Be playful!

Be as playful as a child and as disciplined as a soldier.

Be disciplined!

If you want to change something you have to insist and be persevering.

New ideas are like children: It’s easy to make them, and after that they have to be raised with love and allowed to develop over many years.

Ask anyone!

After asking the professor, ask the kid on the street.

Ask those you don’t expect understand you.

All answers are descriptions of the world and contain a truth.

Flip graphs!

Graphs show in what direction the world is going.

If the good is going down and the bad up, the graphs should be flipped

Graphs are statistics. Who makes up statistics?

We do! The graphs describe us!

Therefore it is us who determine them.

Look up from your computer!

It’s indispensable, but it’s not creative.

Exploit each other!

Together we make up all that the world can do.

Whatever is left unused is waste.

Who wants to go to waste?

Ask questions!

Swing your sword! Questions are a weapon.

Sharp questions are sharp weapons.

A piercing question can cut through cracks and knock down a warrior in thick armour.

Questions also have an inherent energy that seeks answers.

Ask stupid questions!

Children can – but we lose the ability if we’re not careful.

Drop your weaknesses!

Your strengths are all that can cause change in the world.

Weaknesses should be avoided.

Find someone who is good at it. In the business world it’s called outsourcing.

Do what you’re best at doing!

Take more risks!

If you never take a risk, you get left behind.

Beware of political correctness!

There’s a difference between acting correctly and not daring to act at all.

"Danish residents of other ethnic origin" – Does anyone really want to be called that?

Defer critique!

Then you allow something interesting to happen before closing the door..

Don’t be sure you can figure it out!

You know where you start a process but not where you’ll end it. Otherwise there would be no purpose in starting it.

Slow down!

Then your brain will have time to think and your heart to feel.

As the Buddhists say, "We are very busy so we have to proceed slowly."

Think in fairytales!

Believe in happy endings.

Amsterdam 6 september 2007 en Århus, maart 2005