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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.

Do I have to Drop the Analytical Approach?
Absolutely not! Learning to think in a holistic fashion is akin to
learning a second language. You use it when you need to. In France
you speak French in the USA you speak English. Faced with a
complicated, technical problem, you will most likely use analytic
techniques; faced with understanding a complex dynamic problem you
need to think about it using a complexity mindset.

How the Guide Works

This Guide captures each of the core constructs that together comprise
the Complexity Perspective. Each is covered in a non-technical
overview from a business perspective.
The Guide is an extract from a website that provides links to the
enormous body of materials that flesh out specific terms of complexity
or provide greater depth or case examples This Supplementary
Material will take you as deep as you wish to go into the Complexity
Perspective, whereas the Guide will provide an Executive overview.
Where applicable on the website, linkages are also made to the core
academic disciplines of and accepted practice models that underlie the
study of business with links to appropriate academic and practice
papers for those who want to go into greater depth.

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