{"id":1606,"date":"2020-02-06T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/?page_id=1606"},"modified":"2021-02-06T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:20:02","slug":"a-gentle-introduction-to-complexity-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/a-gentle-introduction-to-complexity-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"A gentle introduction to Complexity Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<div class=\"blog-item mb-80 mb-xs-40\">\n<div class=\"blog-item-body\">\n<p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1496\" height=\"1098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Complexity.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Complexity.png 1496w, https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Complexity-600x440.png 600w, https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Complexity-768x564.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"has-text-align-center\">Image from the book &#8216;Organize for Complexity&#8217;,<br>illustrator Pia Steinmann<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Slides\/Pdf<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-gentle-intro-to-Complexity-v1.2c.pdf\">A gentle intro to Complexity Thinking v1.2c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-gentle-intro-to-Complexity-v1.2c.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Videos and games<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Cynefin Framework, Introduction by Dave Snowden: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N7oz366X0-8 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N7oz366X0-8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/N7oz366X0-8<\/a> <\/li><li>Cynefin A&amp;E game: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/latchana.co.uk\/workshop\/cynefin-workshop\/  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/latchana.co.uk\/workshop\/cynefin-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/latchana.co.uk\/workshop\/cynefin-workshop\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our book<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/leanpub.com\/livingcomplexity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Living Complexity<\/a>: A catalogue of practices for everyday software and digital products development<br><em>Luca Minudel<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly<br><em>John Kay<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity<br><em>Stuart Kauffman<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory <br><em>Neil Johnson<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion<br><em>Stuart Kauffman<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Enterprise Agility: Being Agile in a Changing World. <br><em>Sunil Mundra<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Organize for Complexity: How to Get Life Back Into Work to Build the High-Performance Organization<br><em>Niels Pflaeging<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>More books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics<br><em>Ralph D. Stacey<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<br><em>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Scale: the laws of life and death in organisms, cities, and organisations. <br><em>Geoffrey West<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>The Agility Advantage: A Survival Guide For Complex Enterprises and Endeavors<br><em>David S. Alberts<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Power to the Edge: Command\u2026Control\u2026in the Information Age<br><em>David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Small Groups as Complex Systems: Formation, Coordination, Development, and Adaptation<br><em>Holly Arrow<\/em><br><br> <\/li><li>Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder<br><em>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/em><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>   \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image from the book &#8216;Organize for Complexity&#8217;,illustrator Pia Steinmann Slides\/Pdf Videos and games The Cynefin Framework, Introduction by Dave Snowden: https:\/\/youtu.be\/N7oz366X0-8 Cynefin A&amp;E game: https:\/\/latchana.co.uk\/workshop\/cynefin-workshop\/ Our book Living Complexity: A catalogue of practices for everyday software and digital products developmentLuca Minudel Books Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved IndirectlyJohn Kay At Home in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/a-gentle-introduction-to-complexity-thinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A gentle introduction to Complexity Thinking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1606\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}