Theme : complexity
- Beyond wickedness Today we met up with Jake Chapman. He’s an researcher, lecturer and consultant on systems thinking, a Demos associate, the author of the Systems Failure Demos pamphlet (one of our crucial texts for Connecting the Dots), and generally a great guy and brilliant thinker.One of the many helpful things that came out of our discussions with Jake was a more developed understanding of wicked problems... from : simonhampson 5th November 2008
- Blogging Just to say we will now start blogging about interesting stuff related to the project. Simon Hampson from : simonhampson 13th October 2008
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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