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About This Guide
We believe anyone can acquire a Complexity Perspective despite two
thousand years plus of cultural conditioning. The aim of this Guide is
to support the acquisition of that complexity perspective.
The Payoff
This Guide seeks to capture the insights into how the world
REALLY works and has ALWAYS WORKED. The insights are
those provided by Complexity Theory. The Guide captures those
insights and places them, exclusively, into a business context.
Is the Complexity Perspective ‘Mainstream’
Yes and no!
It is slowly seeping into the
business vocabulary!
“Though nobody would deny that the world has
become more complex during the past decades, there
has been no watershed event to make managers apply
complexity science to their work.
Rather, there has been a gradual change in mindset,
pushed along by the increasingly evident damage of
narrow, simplistic thinking. The toolkit that allows us
to understand the dynamics of large systems has
continued to evolve. And the reassuring truth has
been re-asserted that, on top of the logic of algorithms,
human values and judgment are essential.”
Based on: Why Managers Haven’t Embraced Complexity Richard
Straub
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