The Chinese often look to nature to learn how the world works and be more effective in accomplishing one's goals. For instance, both Taoism and Tai Chi use nature as an example to communicate their specific philosophies.
One natural phenomenon we can learn from is waves, especially when thinking of creating change in organizations and the marketplace. Waves have often stood for change; for example, people often talk about creating a "sea change" when speaking about how they want to significantly move or shift their organization. So if we want to understand how to create our own sea change, it makes sense to try and understand how waves are formed and work.
Typically, waves are formed by the wind as it blows across the surface of the water. Wave size will increase as wind speed and power increase, the time the wind blows lengthens and as the size of the body of water grows. Thus, when hurricanes drive across the ocean they can form waves one hundred feet or higher, waves so big they can change land formations.
Learning from waves, then, it is clear that to make major change one must do the following; make one's argument powerfully, implement it with impact, reinforce it consistently over a long period of time, and enlist as many people to help as possible. Thus, by following nature's principles one can then create a sea change in one's own world.
