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books:

Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

3 reviews
Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, ...

Vintage Canada, 2007

250 pages of wisdom
This is an extraordinary book that changed my view of the world in the first 25 pages. While the main focus of the book is a set of principles and approaches to adopt if one is trying to make the world a better place, the principles can be applied more broadly to everyday life. The authors show how small interactions with complex systems can produce disproportionately significant results if one ...

Edgeware: insights from complexity science for health care leaders

3 reviews
Brenda Zimmerman, Paul Plsek, ...

Curt Lindberg, 1998

Complexity science explained to the masses!
As an innovation matures, it moves from one characteristic group of adopters to another. The topics of complexity and nonlinear dynamics were initially adopted by people who were considered "outliers" by their peer group, "freaks". Such innovators are comfortable spanning across disciplinary boundaries to learn how something works. The successful diffusion of the innovation does not occur ...