Leadership in complex and chaotic situations is discussed in the light of the leadership lesson Jacinda Ardern taught the world when she was Prime Minister of New Zealand in the aftermath of the racist attack on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 that left 51 people dead.

The mesmerizing behavior of starling flocks and schools of fish depending on very few and simple rules, creating very complex flight and swim patterns sheds light for us to understand complexity

As our understanding of the complexity of the nature is less filtered by our yearning of idealist harmony, we are shifting away from a Gaussian view of events towards a Paretian world.