Trickster figures show the way creativity can overcome overwhelming odds. Tricksters see beyond the limits of the system and bend the rules. For this reason, tricksters make rigid organizations and governments uneasy. Yet it is just such organizations that need them most. When an organization sees only limited possibilities for growth and change, it is because it is accepting outdated boundaries and contexts that serve only the limited purposes of imposed, coercive limit-cycle power.
— Seven Life Lessons of Chaos