Change, the acknowledged constant: The paradox of two seeming opposite
s contained as one. In the world today we find ourselves challenged by
a multitude of paradoxical problems and our need to resolve these iss
ues drives a change process, the nature of which is dynamic and comple
x. Dynamic change is recognized as a process of moving from one state
or form to another, in ways that appear chaotic, non-linear, and unpre
dictable (Gleick, 1987). This results from the interactions between an
d among individual component parts of a system (Gleick, 1987; Bohm & P
eat, 1987; Goodwin, 1991), and studies to understand how and why this
type of change occurs have found that dynamic change is a creative pro
cess that occurs naturally in, physical, biological and social systems
.