The Power of “NO”
Warren Buffett says “This 1 Simple Habit Separates Successful People From Everyone Else”: “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to…
Bifurcations in Evolution and Decision-Making
Bifurcation Diagrams A couple of decades ago, while learning about chaos and complexity, I started experimenting with my own bifurcation diagrams using huge spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. As the base…
Organizational Change in Time of Crisis?
In an interesting document, Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework created by Dave Snowden and Alessandro Rancati…
Complexity & Points of View
Complexity theorists often quote the non-linearity of dynamical complex systems as a reason why we should not bother even try to predict their future states and just “go with the…
Untangling Complexity Theory
An excellent introductory article for anyone interested in Complexity Theory (CT) is An Introduction to Complexity Theory by Jun Park. Among other things, it provides an insight about its origins…
Managing Complexity with Systems Engineering
Most contemporary writings about Complexity will, at some point or another let you know how “hard” systems engineering methods are not good enough for dealing with complex systems and how…