The features that we see in such systems include power law distributions of disturbances. This means that, like earthquakes, we find many small fluctuations but few large ones. Yet another aspect of these systems is disturbing, and that is that we are unable to predict, even in theory, the size of the next fluctuation. There is no correlation between perturbation or disturbance size and the effect of that nudge, a small change can be sufficient to cause a massive result, whilst a large one may be absorbed without notice. This feature, applied to human systems, means that power is distributed in all of us, we are all capable of changing the system equally, whether we are the head of Government or a simple homeless youngster. We can all influence our world by our actions, stress generates people power.
All it takes is a willingness to try and to persist in trying until we succeed...