At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity59 reviews Stuart Kauffman Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Proposals to Unanswered Questions + Chaos is every where + At home in the universe, A New Proposal... + Fascinating Science Applicable to Evolution and Business             Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through ...8 reviews Michael L. George, Stephen A. Wilson McGraw-Hill, 2004 When Less Is More + Insightful Business Analysis + Compelling Business Case for Conquering Complexity + Practical way to determine complexity             Strategic Thinking and the New Science: Planning in the Midst of Chaos Complexity and Change41 reviews T. Irene Sanders Free Press, 1998 Blog Page Needed for Authors + Strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future + Linking understanding to complexity theory over the ages. Amazon needs to add a Blog spot for authors to respond to reviewers and engage with readers. Because I still do a lot of writing in this subject area, I typically either email and/or call reviewers who write a less-than-favorable review of my book. What I want to know is how my book could have ...             Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation (Complexity and Emergence in ...1 review Ralph Stacey Routledge, 2001 Explains novelty in organizations First, this is the second book in a series edited by edited by Stacey, Griffin, and Patricia Shaw from the Complexity and Management Centre, University of Hertfordshire * Complexity and Management - Fad or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking (2000) - Stacey, Griffin, Shaw * Complex Responsive ...             Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos68 reviews M. Mitchell Waldrop Simon & Schuster, 1992 A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity. + If you liked Gleick's Chaos, you'll love this! This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that this isn't a book of science, ...             Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity13 reviews Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Jossey-Bass, 2001 Unexpectedly a good read + Unexpectedly relevant + Becoming a Resilient Organization + Good luck! + Recipe for a Learning Organization             Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation3 reviews Michael J. North, Charles M. Macal Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Simplifying the complex + Excellent work on Agent-Based Simulation Modelling + Great start to bridge insights from complexity science into business applications I purchased this text to assist me in completing my doctoral dissertation that is based on complexity theory. The authors simplify agent-based modeling to the point that anyone interested can quickly get indoctrinated into the arena and, at a minimum, be able to understand and converse the major ...             Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in ...7 reviews John H. Miller, Scott E. Page Princeton University Press, 2007 very good introduction to the subject + complex systems applied to society + Good Overview + Best in Class, Very Technical, Saluting and Moving On + Depending on your interest..             Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)7 reviews Gregory Bateson Hampton Press, 2002 You're Smarter Than You Think You Are + Brilliant but incredibly obtuse + That reminds me of a story... + Inspiration Beyond Imagination! + The most important book on epistemology there is             Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science3 reviews Edwin E. Olson, Glenda H. Eoyang, ... Pfeiffer, 2001 practical book about promising org. change approach + Universal Framework for OD Work + The Best Practical Guide to Using Complexity This is an interesting book about an approach to managing and changing organizations, which is quite different from traditional change approaches: complexity theory. You might think: "Ah, here we go again.... Is this just the next new management hype, destined to be forgotten soon?" I don't think ...             Complexity & Innovation in Organizations1 review Jose Fonseca Routledge, 2001 Organizations as relationships and patterns of meaning This book is part of a series of books related to complexity and management. The "core" book in the series is Complexity and Management by Stacey, Griffin and Shaw. I think this book by Jose Fonseca is more about the emergence of meaning from conversation than it is about innovation. But perhaps ...             Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (Series of Books in the Mathematical ...13 reviews M. R. Garey, D. S. Johnson W. H. Freeman, 1979 A Beautiful Book on a Beautiful Subject + Definitely a classic but not good for beginners + comprehensive book for NP-completeness + Published in 1979 and still the best + Arrived in time, good condition             Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos9 reviews Roger Lewin University Of Chicago Press, 2000 Why read complexity? + Intriguing and thought provoking. + Fascination at the edge of chaos. + Engagingly Written Science + A fine SECOND book on Complexity             Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations Wiley, 2002 This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide ...             The Power Of Simplicity: A Management Guide to Cutting Through the Nonsense and Doing Things Right34 reviews Jack Trout McGraw-Hill, 2000 A counter-cultural voice of reason + Simple and powerful + I TEACH PEOPLE spiritually HOW TO LIVE YOUNG AND FLOURISH, not COMPLICATE their lives with guru worship! + Should a part of management and engineering training             Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)14 reviews John Holland Basic Books, 1996 John Holland is the master + A milestone in understandin complexity + Not the Best Intro Book for Everyone In the worlds of Complexity and Artificial Intelligence, the name of John Holland is revered, and for good reason. One of the most important contributions to both fields was Holland's invention of genetic algorithms, a class of optimization techniques that applies a survival-of-the-fittest ...             Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier10 reviews Robert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen Basic Books, 2001 A beginner's view As my first venture into the world of complexity and complex adaptive systems this was an interesting book. A lot of what I anecdotally thought about complexity was reinforced through the authors' own anecdotal examples. The examples were from a wide variety of situations, but were explained in a ...             Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity (Developmental Management)2 reviews Elliott Jaques, Stephen D. Clement, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 1994 Great Book + Requisite Organization Elliott Jaques devised a system for analyzing executive ability based upon an individual's time horizon--the maximum period of time in the future toward which his/her work activities were aimed in their performance. He reached this conclusion during extensive, longitudinal, empirical studies in ...             Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos68 reviews M. Mitchell Waldrop Simon & Schuster, 1992 A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity. + If you liked Gleick's Chaos, you'll love this! This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that this isn't a book of science, ...             Systems Thinking, Second Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business ...24 reviews Jamshid Gharajedaghi Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005 Don't be afraid, + A True Cipher Key To Business Design / Re-Engineering This is really aimed at the reader who wishes to work on the transformation of whole organisations. Demonstrating the multi-dimensional relationships between organisational design, performance and behaviour. This work has had a profound effect on my thinking and development of management ideas. ...