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Book Synopsis Living at the Edge of Chaos by : Helene Shulman
Download or read book Living at the Edge of Chaos written by Helene Shulman and published by Daimon. This book was released on 1997 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helene Shulman integrates experiences of synchronicity, altered states of consciousness, trance, ritual, Buddhist meditation practice and creativity into a broad perspective on cross-cultural psychology. What emerges is a comprehensive way to understand psychological illness and healing as a perpetual work-in-progress near the edge of chaos, where the seeds for new models of reality lie. With mental illness as the focus, she leads us on a fascinating interdisciplinary exploration, linking such areas as cultural studies, anthropology, evolutionary science and new work in mathematics and computer science " known as complexity theory " to Jungian psychology. A new paradigm for postmodern psychology emerges as the author presents a dynamic theoretical model containing rational and irrational aspects of individual and collective life.
Book Synopsis Project Management at the Edge of Chaos by : Alfred Oswald
Download or read book Project Management at the Edge of Chaos written by Alfred Oswald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practical recommendations for dealing with complexity in projects. The methods paradigm in project management is currently undergoing a massive upheaval. Projects are complex entities that cannot be tackled using traditional methods, such as classical cause and effect approaches. Complexity, and the associated phenomenon of self-organization, is a natural, but hidden designer. It offers a great opportunity in its use as a key driver for the implementation of projects. This requires identification of the principles of complexity and then using these for project management. In this book, the latest findings from natural sciences and brain research are used and transferred within a practice-oriented framework. The authors describe the methods of complexity regulation in projects and how self-organization for the management of projects can be applied.
Book Synopsis Aid on the Edge of Chaos by : Ben Ramalingam
Download or read book Aid on the Edge of Chaos written by Ben Ramalingam and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it altogether - and argue that the fate of poor and vulnerable people be best placed in the hands of markets and the private sector. Meanwhile, growing numbers are suggesting that what is most needed is the creative, innovative transformation of how aid works. Aid on the Edge of Chaos is firmly in the third of these camps. In this ground-breaking book, Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear, mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built would be more at home in early twentieth century factory floors than in the dynamic, complex world we face today. All around us, we can see the costs and limitations of dealing economies and societies as if they are analogous to machines. The reality is that such social systems have far more in common with ecosystems: they are complex, dynamic, diverse and unpredictable. Many thinkers and practitioners in science, economics, business, and public policy have started to embrace more 'ecologically literate' approaches to guide both thinking and action, informed by ideas from the 'new science' of complex adaptive systems. Inspired by these efforts, there is an emerging network of aid practitioners, researchers, and policy makers who are experimenting with complexity-informed responses to development and humanitarian challenges. This book showcases the insights, experiences, and often remarkable results from these efforts. From transforming approaches to child malnutrition, to rethinking processes of economic growth, from building peace to combating desertification, from rural Vietnam to urban Kenya, Aid on the Edge of Chaos shows how embracing the ideas of complex systems thinking can help make foreign aid more relevant, more appropriate, more innovative, and more catalytic. Ramalingam argues that taking on these ideas will be a vital part of the transformation of aid, from a post-WW2 mechanism of resource transfer, to a truly innovative and dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Edge of Chaos written by Jak Koke and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new elixir will be the saving grace—or the doom—of the Plaguewrought Lands in this third standalone novel in the Wilds series On the border of a dangerous, magically unstable area called the Plaguewrought Lands, a powerful new alliance is formed between an alchemist and the leader of the Order of Blue Flame. One seeks the spread of the wild magic created by the Spellplague while the other is eager to bring such magic under control. Though divided in their goals, the pair makes plans to create a special elixir that allows pilgrims to survive Plaguewrought Lands. But only one of them can succeed. A young man with strange powers and a priestess of the god of death will help set the course of the future. Will it end in salvation—or destruction?
Book Synopsis Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1 by : Yaneer Bar-yam
Download or read book Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1 written by Yaneer Bar-yam and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of complex systems has attracted a broad range of researchers from many disciplines spanning both the hard and soft sciences. In the Autumn of 1997, 300 of these researchers came together for the First International Conference on Complex Systems. The proceedings of this conference is the first book in the New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity and includes more than 100 presentations and papers on topics like evolution, emergence, complexity, self-organization, scaling, informatics, time series, emergence of mind, and engineering of complex systems.
Book Synopsis Systems Research II by : Kyoichi Kijima
Download or read book Systems Research II written by Kyoichi Kijima and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research. Researchers and practitioners from Japan and other countries who have been influenced by Takahara have come together from far and wide to contribute their major research masterpieces in the field of systems research in the broadest sense. While the roots of Takahara’s systems research are in general systems theory and systems control theory, he developed his research and teaching in diverse directions such as management information science, engineering, social simulation, and systems thinking. As a result, many of the researchers and practitioners he supervised or influenced have established their own positions and are now active around the world in a wide range of systems research. Volume II is a collection of their masterpieces or representative works in the fields of systems management theory and practice.
Book Synopsis The Edge of Organization by : Russ Marion
Download or read book The Edge of Organization written by Russ Marion and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Russ Marion discusses formal and social organizations from the perspectives of chaos and complexity theories. The book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity.
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management by : Peter Allen
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management written by Peter Allen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies.
Book Synopsis Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos by : Jeffrey A. Bell
Download or read book Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos written by Jeffrey A. Bell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of difference is the subject of Jeffrey A. Bell's Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos. Bell argues that Deleuze's efforts to develop a philosophy of difference are best understood by exploring both Deleuze's claim to be a Spinozist, and Nietzsche's claim to have found in Spinoza an important precursor. Beginning with an analysis of these claims, Bell shows how Deleuze extends and transforms concepts at work in Spinoza and Nietzsche to produce a philosophy of difference that promotes and, in fact, exemplifies the notions of dynamic systems and complexity theory. With these concepts at work, Deleuze constructs a philosophical approach that avoids many of the difficulties that linger in other attempts to think about difference. Bell uses close readings of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Whitehead to illustrate how Deleuze's philosophy is successful in this regard and to demonstrate the importance of the historical tradition for Deleuze. Far from being a philosopher who turns his back on what is taken to be a mistaken metaphysical tradition, Bell argues that Deleuze is best understood as a thinker who endeavoured to continue the work of traditional metaphysics and philosophy.
Book Synopsis Agency and Change by : Raymond Caldwell
Download or read book Agency and Change written by Raymond Caldwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty.
Book Synopsis Complexity and Organization by : Robert Macintosh
Download or read book Complexity and Organization written by Robert Macintosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, complexity-based thinking has exerted an increasing, yet somewhat controversial authority over management theory and practice. This has in some part been due to the influence of a number of high-profile articles and the not inconsiderable hype which has accompanied them. Another feature of the subject’s development has been the diversity of the origins of the thinking and the claims which have been made for it in terms of managerial and organizational implications. Complexity and Organization is the first text to bring this thinking together, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field, showing how the subject has developed and how it continues to influence managerial thinking. Seminal contributions to the field have been brought together in a single accessible volume, allowing readers to access what might otherwise appear a very diverse body of literature. Moreover, the editors, who represent some of the leading thinkers and writers in this field, have combined these readings with a unique commentary, indicating not only the importance of the papers but teasing out the subtle but significant differences and similarities between them. These commentaries take the form of a discussion between the editors, debating the contribution that each paper has made to the field and the influence it has had on management thinking.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Leadership by : Kurt A. April
Download or read book Rethinking Leadership written by Kurt A. April and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, leaders are having to speak a new language, create fluid organic structures, and recognise organisations as systems with self-renewing capacity. This book explores what real leadership means, encouraging the reader to look within.
Book Synopsis Managing Software for Growth by : Roy W. Miller
Download or read book Managing Software for Growth written by Roy W. Miller and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Helps managers combat the manufacturing mindset that dominates business thinking, and shows why this mindset is harmful to software development - Introduces predictability to the historically unpredictable world of software development - Allows organizations to improve job satisfaction by fostering an environment of creativity among developers
Book Synopsis Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017 by : Şefika Şule Erçetin
Download or read book Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017 written by Şefika Şule Erçetin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences. The text explores chaotic and complex systems, as well as chaos and complexity theory in view of their applicability to management and leadership. This proceedings explores non-linearity as well as data-modelling and simulation in order to uncover new approaches and perspectives. Effort will not be spared in bringing theory into practice while exploring leadership and management-laden concepts. This book will cover the analysis of different chaotic developments from different fields within the concepts of chaos and complexity theory. Researchers and students in the field will find answers to questions surrounding these intertwined and compelling fields.
Book Synopsis Sensors And Microsystems, Proceedings Of The 4th Italian Conference by : J Mike Bremner
Download or read book Sensors And Microsystems, Proceedings Of The 4th Italian Conference written by J Mike Bremner and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-01-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge by : Ayub V. O. Ofulla
Download or read book The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge written by Ayub V. O. Ofulla and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge, author Prof. Ayub V. O. Ofulla presents the basic physics of life as it relates to molecular physical realities of life itself or social life as it relates to the individual. Grounded on physical, biological, and social sciences intertwined with information from ancient writings and scriptures, The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge provides the foundation to help you maintain order in your life, avoid or tackle situations that are chaotic and act as stumbling blocks, and embrace unavoidable chaotic situations and use them for innovative survival and faster progress. You can also come to understand how the basic nature of the physical universe is part and parcel of your life and realize the part of nature your life occupies and how it shapes you and your progress or failure in the world. You can successfully exist and change your attitude to live a peaceful, harmonious, and progressive life. Provocative and informative, The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge shows that ever-prevalent chaos brings failure. Thus, it is imperative to create a balance to only allow a bit of chaos to help us embrace change, conduct research, and innovate to help us progress and live more harmonious lives. This book demonstrates how we can learn from Mother Nature whose creative genius consists in nothing but perpetual ordering of chaos The book will both inform and inspire - Oliver Okoth Achila, JKUAT Scholar
Book Synopsis Complexity-intelligence Strategy: A New Paradigmatic Shift by : Thow Yick Liang
Download or read book Complexity-intelligence Strategy: A New Paradigmatic Shift written by Thow Yick Liang and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newtonian mindset has dominated the entire human world for more than three centuries. It has provided the necessary knowledge, theories and conceptual foundation that supported the industrial revolution, hierarchical leadership and governance, deliberate planning and strategy, and operational control of all organizations. However, over the last few decades, constraints and incoherency are emerging due to new accelerants and elevating complexity density. The new situation and dynamics, and the multi-dimensional changes require a fresh thinking and deeper comprehension that is beyond the boundaries of the exact sciences. As the continuality of human existence requires a new global order to be established, a paradigmatic shift is essential. This book provides the foundation for nurturing the new intelligence mindset that is critical in the present context. Fundamentally, the intelligence mindset encompasses intelligence/consciousness-centricity, complexity-centricity, network-centricity and stability-centricity, and constructionist thinking as its foundation pillars. The conceptual foundation of this new paradigmatic shift is presented as the intelligent organization theory, and the theory of relativistic complexity. The intelligent organization theory (encompassing iCAS, iCAD, self-centricity, stability-centricity, organizing around intelligence, localized order,..., mental cohesion) also provides a conceptual foundation to certain thinking and dynamics associated with Brexit and the current US under President Donald Trump.
