Leadership style and the management of the effects of complexity_Abstract

by Dimitris Antoniadis

To be published as a Chapter in the Book: 'Chaos and Complexity Theory for Management: Nonlinear Dynamics' (Ed. S.Banerjee) - Summer 2012

Within any organisation be that a project or a company department a number of people / ‘systems’ come together to... more

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Complexity Definitions

by Andrés Ginestet

These definitions are included in a dynamic process and they change as the theory developed by Andrés Ginestet changes. Complexity is based on dynamics, and the response needs to follow the dynamics of complexity itself.

- Environmental complexity (C0) is any portion of organized information in any state that is required to fulfill... more

Complexity Definitions

by Andrés Ginestet

These definitions are included in a dynamic process and they change as the theory developed by Andrés Ginestet changes. Complexity is based on dynamics, and the response needs to follow the dynamics of complexity itself.

- Environmental complexity (C0) is any portion of organized information in any state that is required to fulfill... more

Language, complexity and narrative emergence: Lessons from Solution Focused practice

by Mark McKergow

Published as a chapter in Andrew Tait and Kurt Richardson (2011), Moving Forward with Complexity, Litchfield Park AZ: Emergent Publications, ISBN 978-0984216598

This paper examines the case for viewing conversations as emergent phenomena, and the practical consequences for... more

Converging Technologies: The Future of the Global Information Society

by Christopher Altman

First Committee chair report to the UN General Assembly, RSA Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement (2004).

"Christopher Altman, Chairman of the UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, was recently selected as recipient of the RSA Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy for his report to the General Assembly, "Converging Technologies: The Future of the Global Information Society."

"The RSA Conference and Awards is the world's most prestigious international information security conference for organizations that deploy, develop or investigate security or cryptography."

"Previous RSA Keynote speakers and Awards Recipients include Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation, US Congressman Tom Davis, and Richard Clarke, former White House Security Advisor. "

The complex web of the global information grid will undergo explosive changes over coming decades. As advances in... more

From Wittgenstein, Complexity, and Narrative Emergence: Discourse and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

by Mark McKergow

Co-authored with Gale Miller, Marquette University. Published as
*Miller G & McKergow M (2012), From Wittgenstein, Complexity, and Narrative Emergence: Discourse and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (in A. Lock and T. Strong, eds, Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp163-183

This chaper connects Wittgensteinian thinking and complexity perspectives with discourse in the therapy room and... more

Complexity Science and Management: What's In It for Business?

by Mark McKergow

Essay review of six books. Published as "Complexity Science and Management - What's in it for business?", Long Range Planning 29, pp 721 - 727(1996)

M Mitchell Waldrop: Complexity, Penguin, 1994, 359pp, £8.99pb

John Casti: Complexification, Abacus, 1994,... more

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