蝴蝶效应是混沌理论中的一个术语,现在成为现代管理中的重要理念,并被运用到学习型组织理论之中。 1979年美国气象专家爱德华·洛伦兹教授经过研究认为,南半球(巴西)的一只蝴蝶偶尔扇动一下翅膀所引起的微弱气波,几星期后可变成席卷北半球(美国的得克萨斯州)的一场龙卷风。后来不少学者将这种由一个极少起因。经过一定的时间,在其他因素的参与作用下,发展成极为巨大和复杂后果的现象称为“蝴蝶效应”。美国学者维纳曾用民谣形象而又通俗地表述了蝴蝶效应的内涵:“钉子缺,蹄铁卸;蹄铁卸,战马蹶;战马蹶,骑士绝;骑士绝,战士 Butterfly effect is a term in chaos theory that has now become an important concept in modern management and applied to the theory of learning organization. In 1979, Professor Edward Lorentz, a meteorological expert in the United States, after a study, thought that a butterfly in the southern hemisphere (Brazil) occasionally flashed the faint airwaves caused by its wings and became the first in a few weeks to swell the Northern Hemisphere (Texas of the United States) Field tornado. Later on, many scholars put this by a very rare cause. After a certain period of time, with the participation of other factors, the phenomenon of development into extremely huge and complex consequences is called ”butterfly effect.“ The American scholar Wiener once described the connotation of the butterfly effect with the image of ballad: ”The nail is missing and the shoe is unloaded; the shoe is unloaded and the stirrup is on; the horse and horse are knight; the knight must and the soldier