The word “bias” is richly imbued with implications of censure. It is not, after all, a good thing to be…
Complexity in Business
For that past 3 years I’ve been writing a book on complexity and business using a bit of an archaic…
In the past year I discovered the essays of Isaiah Berlin. Berlin was a historian of ideas and the Enlightenment…
While there’s some exceptional writing about complexity in business, there’s not enough. Too many business writers and consultants work hard…
I encountered complexity science in 1981 when looking at ecological stability in a U. Colorado differential equations class. The prof,…
In the US, our population seems to have arrived at two political extremes — those who reject science because they…
Decades of consultant programs and textbooks have trained those of us in business to assume that anything worth learning can…
Writing my book on complexity and chaos in business I’ve been covering the topic of emergence — an issue of…
An insidious idea floats around engineering and design circles — that a perfectly engineered product needs no marketing. Engineers and…
It has been mystifying for me how respect for experts has waned over the past decade. Bringing in experienced people,…
