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Loading... Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontierby Robert Axelrod
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"Recent advances in the study of complexity have 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 leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change." "Building on evolutionary biology, computer science, and social design, Axelrod and Cohen have constructed a unique framework for improving the way people work together. Their approach to management is based on the concept of the Complex Adaptive System, which can describe everything from rain forests to the human gene pool, and from automated software agents to multinational companies. The authors' framework reveals three qualities that all kinds of managers must cultivate in their organization."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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First of all, what this is not: this is not a quantitative description or investigation of complex systems, a book about agent-based modeling, etc. That is more what I was looking for and -for me- earned a -1 on the stars.
As far as what the book is: a qualitative description and partial categorization of complex systems and related ideas (e.g. the 4 to alter behaviors/agent choice/rewards in a complex system.) In this way, it is still a good book (and deserving of maybe 3.5 stars, but Goodreads.) If you wanted to start out building quantitative descriptions yourself, these are the qualitative descriptions you would start with. (