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Theme : complexity
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Strategy Unit Seminar: Economics for the Real World
Economics for the Real World. Eric Beinhocker, Senior Fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, set out a new perspective on how economies work in the real world and its implications for public policy. Based on 'The Origin of Wealth'
from : duncanoleary
24th April 2007
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Dialog on Leadership
I came across this website today, which was put together by a group of leading organisational and business thinkers (including my personal all-time favourite Peter Senge), and contains a host of interesting interviews and papers on the future of knowledge and leadership.
from : juliahuber
21st January 2005
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Tip Two
Malcolm Gladwell returns. The author who published The Tipping Point and himself helped to tip a tidal wave of books about complexity and social systems will release his second book, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, this January.As Gladwell explains "It's a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book,...
from : petermacleod
30th November 2004
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Life's a beach
Interest in Charlie Leadbeater's 'Beach Party' article is still strong. It made Private Eye's pseud's corner a couple of weeks back and gets a mention (with sarcastic comment about the British weather) in today's Arts & Letters Daily.
from : paulmiller
6th September 2004
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Naughton & Network Logic
A thoughtful review of our networks collection from John Naughton in yesterday's Observer. He makes a fair criticism, namely that: "The term 'network' is one of those words whose very ubiquitousness allows it to escape careful definition. The fact that everyone is assumed to understand it means that nobody ever feels obliged to explain it carefully. This is not entirely true of the Demos essayists, but even when they deign to define, they let it slip away."
from : jameswilsdon
28th June 2004
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Bookworms and Networks
[via IWire]Valdis Crebs has produced a new networked representation of the purchasing pattern of a selection of political books. Although personally unsure of what to make of this, it's got me thinking?The New York Times speculated last year about the possible political implications of a previous attempt, whilst Will Davies discusses the potential impact on literary criticism.An interesting exercise for the next away day?!
from : duncanoleary
5th May 2004
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I am the law
John Brockman's site The Edge has invited a host of leading scientists and digerati to suggest new universal laws, in the style of Boyle, Newton, Faraday and Moore.Contributors include Demos favourites such as Howard Gardner, Douglas Rushkoff, Brian Goodwin, Howard Rheingold, Brian Eno, Martin Rees, Rupert Sheldrake and Ray Kurzweil. The list starts here.There's some interesting thoughts in the mix. Well worth a look.
from : jameswilsdon
14th January 2004
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Government use of complexity in the US
I confess I haven't read all of it yet but this looks interesting - a survey of the use of complexity science in the main US government departments and agencies.Click here for more.
from : paulmiller
4th November 2003
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Will Self-Organises
Following on from our debate in the Greenhouse, Will Davies of the Work Foundation has a piece in Sp!ked this week about self-organisation and politics. Worth a look.
from : paulmiller
26th September 2003
