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A Starter Collection

If you are interested in building a basic collection of books which cover, in an approachable way, the basics of the science of complexity and organizational and management implications, the following works are recommended:

  • Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos by John Briggs
  • The Unshackled Organization: Facing the Challenge of Unpredictability Through Spontaneous Reorganization by Jeffrey Goldstein
  • Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization by Kevin Kelly
  • Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan
  • Complexity and Creativity in Organizations by Ralph Stacey
  • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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