Succeed over difficult problems by embracing Complexity-Thinking
Succeed over difficult problems by embracing Complexity-Thinking
Micro-guide to thriving in everyday complexity by breaking free from ordered and linear approaches
About the Book
We can accurately predict the position of a planet in the sky 400 years from now. Yet we cannot predict if and when a certain project will be completed. Why is that? And what can we do?
This short book is a micro-guide to Complexity-thinking for anyone who is faced with solving complex problems and is struggling to find the crux of the matter with the help of the current approaches alone.
The book is for newcomers to Complexity-thinking as well as for those already familiar with the topic as it contains essential information. It also contains a call to action for managers and CEOs. This is the kind of book that, after reading it, you'll want to share with your colleagues.
Since the Internet and Web revolution, complex problems reached a critical point, becoming pervasive, persistent, and exponential. Innovation and the rate of technical, social, productive, and economic change began to undergo an unstoppable acceleration. As a result, commonly used "ordered and linear" ways of working and thinking began to prove insufficient.
If you are ready to experiment with new ways of thinking and working to effectively tackle complex problems and make a difference, this book is for you.
The book on Goodreads => https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208150377-succeed-over-difficult-problems-by-embracing-complexity-thinking
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Sunil Mundra
- Foreword by Marcin Floryan
- Foreword by Paolo Aversa
- Foreword by Marco Fainello
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Where all these complex problems come from
- Where complex problems diffusion stands today
- Today’s approach to complex problems is flawed
- How to understand which problems are really complex
- How to understand what Complexity (Science) is
- Reaching different levels of understanding and practice
- Embracing Complexity-thinking
- Which of the many Complexity Sciences to follow
- Confusion to avoid with concepts related to complexity
- Connections between concepts related to complexity
- Learning and dealing with Human Complexity in a social way
- What to do next?
- What to do next? Ideas for Leaders
- What to do next? Ideas for those funding and planning the work
- What to do next? For the teams and their leaders
- One last piece of advice on avoiding trivialisations
- Insights from distinguished practitioners
- Carol Mase, social anthropologist and author
- Tiani Jones, Socio-technologist and Keynote speaker
- Valerie McLean, creator of the McLean Loop
- John Coleman, creator of Kanplexity
- Chris Matts, creator of Real Options e co-author of Commitment
- Sonja Blignaut, creator of Waysfinder and prolific author and speaker
- Daniel Mezick, author of Inviting Leadership, The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, etc.
- Sunil Mundra, Author of Enterprise Agility
- The author
- Appendix 1 - Book versions history
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