Edward lorenz, an American meteorologist, analyzed this influence in the paper 1963 submitted to the New York Academy of Sciences. "A meteorologist mentioned that if this theory is proved to be correct, a seagull flapping its wings is enough to change the weather forever." In his later speeches and papers, he used more poetic butterflies. The most common explanation for this effect is: "A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can trigger a tornado in Texas a month later."

The source of this sentence is that meteorologists have made a computer program that can simulate climate change and show it with images. Finally, he found that the image was chaotic, and it looked like the wings of a butterfly, so he explained the figure vividly in the way of "butterflies flapping their wings", so he had the above statement.

Butterfly effect is usually used in weather, stock market and other complex systems that are difficult to predict in a certain period of time. This effect shows that the result of the development of things is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions, and the smallest deviation of the initial conditions will cause great differences in the results.

Butterfly effect is used in sociology to explain a bad micro-mechanism, which will bring great harm to society if it is not guided and adjusted in time, and is dubbed as "tornado" or "storm"; A good micro-mechanism, as long as it is guided correctly, will have a sensational effect after a period of efforts, or it will be called a "revolution."

The butterfly effect, also called nonlinearity, often appears in chaos.

Kannikin's law was put forward by American management scientist Peter. It is said that the value of a wooden barrel composed of multiple boards lies in its water holding capacity, but the key factor that determines the water holding capacity of a wooden barrel is not the longest board, but the shortest board. In other words, any organization may face the same problem, that is, all parts of the organization are often uneven, and inferior parts often determine the level of the whole organization.

If only as a visual metaphor, the "barrel law" can be described as extremely ingenious and unique. However, with more and more frequent use, its application occasions and scope are becoming more and more extensive, and it has basically risen from simple metaphor to theoretical level. This "wooden barrel" composed of many boards can not only symbolize an enterprise, a department, a team, but also an employee. The maximum capacity of the "wooden barrel" symbolizes the overall strength and competitiveness.

Of course, there is also an "anti-Koenigin law": the longest wooden board in a barrel determines its characteristics and advantages and becomes the commanding height in a small range; For an organization, with distinctive features, it can jump out of the rules of the game of large groups and establish its own kingdom. In terms of strengths and weaknesses, it is more reasonable to base your performance on your own superior resources. According to Drucker, it is to "base your performance on strength, not weakness".

Small world law: The world is not as big as we think, and it is easier to meet people we know than we think.

There is a conjecture in the field of mathematics called six-degree separation, and Chinese translation includes the following categories: six-degree separation theory or small-world theory.

The theory points out that there will be no more than six people between you and any stranger, that is to say, you can know any stranger through six people at most. This is the six-degree division theory, also known as the small world theory.

This phenomenon does not mean that any contact between people must go through six levels, but expresses an important concept: any two strangers can always have an inevitable connection or relationship through certain contact methods. Obviously, with the different contact methods and abilities, the opportunities to realize personal expectations will be obviously different.

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