Harnessing Complexity - Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

Robert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen

Basic Books

2000

184 páginas

6h 8m

ISBN-10: 0465005500

The explosion of research on complex system has given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leader in business and government with an in-depth introduction to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change. Harnessing Complexity is a step-by-step guide that managers can use to understand the processes of variation, interaction and selection that are at the heart of the authors' paradigm of bottom-up management. This simples yet revolutionary analysis of how people work together will transform the way we think about getting things done in group.