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             Dynamic Leader Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers3 reviews Larraine Segil Wiley, 2002 Dynamic Leader Adaptive Organization + Dynamic Leader Adaptive Organization + Leadership Starts From Within Larraine Segil's book "Dynamic Leader Adaptive Organization" is truly a superb business management digest to serve all cultures across our world continents on what it takes to obtain good organizational results. Through her 10 Essential Traits, she sites hundreds of real life positive examples ...             Business Darwinism Evolve or Dissolve: Adaptive Strategies for the Information Age9 reviews Eric A. Marks John Wiley & Sons, 2002 A Must-Read Corporate IT Primer + Putting Information Into The Right Perspective + A wonderful complement to corporate strategic thinking.... + Information Mastery is the key to Survival! + Family stick together             Self-Organization in Biological Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)2 reviews Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, ... Princeton University Press, 2003 Real, practical studies of self-organization in biology + Great book, what happened to the website? Many books containing theory upon theory about self-organization in the biosphere have appeared in recent years. This book could be an important catalyst towards putting more of these theories to the test. While it has long been recognized that self-organization could be important in biological ...             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             Future Shock34 reviews Alvin Toffler Bantam, 1984 Amazingly Accurate! + Toffler's Political Prescription Yet to be Realized + Amazingly Accurate! I read Future Shock immediately before reading Alvin and Heidi Toffler's latest book: Revolutionary Wealth. I am fascinated with thoughtful predictions of the future. Knowing the accuracy of the predictions he made about the future in Future Shock (which was first Published in 1970) would ...             The Anxious Organization: Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things4 reviews Jeffrey Miller Facts on Demand Press, 2002 If you need to work, you need to read this book. + What's an Organization? + Excellent book The examples in this book are so true to life that I instantly recognized characters and conflicts in every chapter. Once I started reading (and it's extremely readable), I began to notice "anxious dynamics" everywhere, just as the author describes them -- in meetings, in office relationships, ...             Theories of Revolution and Revolutionary Organization Storming Media, 1998 This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A470953. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis is in the form of ...             Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century16 reviews Alvin Toffler Bantam, 1991 Fifteen years later A different world. Toffler as the author of 'Future Shock' + The Optimistic Jew + Great Book + As good as it can get + Excellent Book             Shaping the Adaptive Organization: Landscapes, Learning, and Leadership in Volatile Times2 reviews William E. Fulmer AMACOM, 2000 The changing face of business strategy + Insightful! While the coverage of some topics is slightly more cursory than I might consider appropriate, I have found this book useful in prompting new thinking about how we fashion strategy in the new business environment. This is an excellent book for anyone who has interests in the new understandings we ...             Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations13 reviews Stephan H. Haeckel Harvard Business School Press, 1999 The Future of Service Industries + A new vision + A book full of really wonderful gems Adaptive Enterprise covers two separate but related topics - mass customisation (customisation at mass production costs) and agility (capability to deal with changes in the business environment and the associated high levels of uncertainty). The book is primarily focused on service industries, ...             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, ...             The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex17 reviews Harold J. Morowitz Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Complexity, Past, Present, & Future... + "Emergence" explained and applied + Emerging complexity Emergence, as a scientific counterpoint to reductionism could be a dull subject in the hands of a less deft observer of the world. In the hands of Professor Morowitz the subject comes alive with scientific detail and a thoughtful perspective. Professor Morowitz divides the history of the ...             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 ...             The Third Wave26 reviews Alvin Toffler Bantam, 1984 Good book + I like Toffler but I like Xiaoping, published by 1stWorld better + The Optimistic Jew + All the Toffler Books are worth a read + The Great Overview             Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books)11 reviews John H. Holland Basic Books, 1999 Another great book by Holland + First steps towards a future theory of emergence + an undispensable completion of "hidden order" Expands on Holland's previous book Hidden Order. It presents an interesting method for understanding complexity and emergence. Highly recommended for those attempting to understand complex adaptive systems.             The Next Common Sense: The e-Manager's Guide to Mastering Complexity11 reviews Michael Lissack Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000 "10 Scenic Vistas on the Corporate Landscape" + A very useful book from the visual thinking perspective + THINKING IN A NEW KEY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY! + An interesting view of where we are going.             Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture24 reviews Jamshid Gharajedaghi Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 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. ...             Adaptive Corporation1 review Alvin Toffler Bantam, 1985 A timeless classic with relevance today Author Alvin Toffler begins the book with a prologue titled "The Museum of Corporate Dinosaurs." He wrote from the perspective of the state of industry and management in the 1970s and early 1980s. The book was written as a report for internal use by Bell Telephone senior executives, and was ...             The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution8 reviews Stuart A. Kauffman Oxford University Press, USA, 1993 The science book to read. Six stars at least. + A Fantastic book + New paradigm shift in biology + Hopeful spontaneity + Best book I ever read