Complexity Theory


Complexity: A Guided Tour
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Chaos: Making a New Science
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
A New Kind of Science
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
Paul Gibbons
Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.
Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

David Whyte
All the evidence from the science of complexity says that given certain clear parameters...communities or teams will become self-organizing. They will be attracted to certain flowing states of organization natural to the people who make them up. In complexity theory, these flowing states are poetically called strange attractors. ... A work team made up of collaborating individuals would...have, if you could measure and plot creativity, failure, and success, a strange attractor that depicted the ...more
David Whyte, The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

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