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If you are new to complexity
thinking, you are not alone!
“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
If the Complexity Perspective has been slow to infiltrate business, the
reason may lie in the undoubted fact that complexity theory is really
confusing to the layperson!!
Founded in the hard sciences it is stuffed with their jargon often
differing from one discipline to the next. Additionally, it is usually
expressed in mathematics that is difficult to follow.
This Guide and its underlying Website is, to our knowledge, the first
attempt to focus solely on complexity as a perspective for
understanding business aimed at the lay business user. The closest
alternative is Complexity Labs, which is well worth a visit.
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