The next common sense mastering corporate complexity through coherence - Lissack, Michael (Nicholas Brealey Pub., 1999)
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Mastering Complexity through Coherence -- - The arrows, not the boxes -- - Making sense with coherence -- - Complexity science is about simplicity -- - Guiding coherent action -- - Practicing the next common sense -- - Use Simple Guiding Principles -- - Six bad rules -- - Guiding principles that work -- - Why simple rules? -- - Great words -- what do they mean? -- - Simple rules lead to meaning only through interaction -- - Interaction happens in context -- - Guidelines for using simple guiding principles -- - Respect Mental Models: Yours and Others' -- - Simple rules guide mental models -- - Mental models are toolsets -- - Actions depend on interpretations -- - Exploring the context and setting the stage -- - Detecting creativity and obstructionism in a mental model -- - Creative mental modeling -- - Guidelines for respecting mental models -- - Use Landscape Images -- - Why landscapes? -- - Gaps and bridges -- - Using landscape images -- - Landscape images can create coherence -- - Guidelines for using landscape images -- - Combine and Recombine -- - Building blocks are integral to how we think -- - Context is the most important building block -- - Seeing is the first step -- - Functionality is an important component -- - Coherence has building blocks too -- - Guidelines for combining and recombining -- - Recognize Your Multiple Roles, Don't Hide from Them -- - Success through multiplicity -- - Holon not synthesis -- - Failure in artificial unity -- - Why Richard Branson doesn't knit, or using multiple roles as building blocks -- - Separate out the foreground