The Interaction of Complexity and Management
Program Titles
- Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management
- Coherence.org — Your Guide to The Next Common Sense
- Complexity Science and Corporate Languaging
As interest in the study of complex systems has grown, a new vocabulary is emerging to describe discoveries about wide-ranging and fundamental phenomena. Complexity theory research has allowed for new insights into many phenomena and for the development of a new language.
I argue that a shared language based on the vocabulary of complexity can have an important role in a management context. The use of complexity theory metaphors can change the way managers think about the problems they face. Instead of competing in a game or a war, managers of a compelxity thinking enterprise are trying to find their way on an ever changing, ever turbulent landscape. Such a conception of their organizations’ basic task can, in turn, change the day-to-day decisions made by management. The most productive applications of complexity models have to do with new possibilities for innovation in organizations. These possibilities require new ways of thinking, but old models of thinking persist long after they are productive. New ways of thinking don’t just happen; they require new models which have to be learned.
Books by Michael R. Lissack
- The Interaction of Complexity and Management
- Managing Complexity in Organizations : A View in Many Directions
- The Next Common Sense: Mastering Corporate Complexity Through Coherence
- The Interaction of Complexity and Management
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