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The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker

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Pavel Samsonov • Design without process, or the form factor trap

When leaders don't deliver what they promise, employees throw out or undermine the redesign effort. It's six times more likely for executives at these companies to "declare victory" than at companies that just have one or two golden rules.

McKinsey • Getting organizational redesign right

Self-managing organizations naturally provide for exceptional learning opportunities.

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management

Russell L. Ackoff

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Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

This region of the dynamic spectrum, where outdated order dissolves into a creative and responsive chaos from which novel order can emerge, is often referred to as “the edge of chaos.” Stuart Kaufman suggested: “The best place for a system to be, in order to respond appropriately to a constantly changing world, is at the edge of chaos.” He explains