I do not know if my research is what you are looking for but I am about to
get my book published "Cognition and Complexity" and it is the development
and description of a cognitive heuristic for the reframing of intellectual
complexity, thus the cognitive management of complexity. Scarecrow Press
this coming Summer.
It moves through many forms of thinking (systems, dialectical,
metaphorical, critical schema theory, gestalt, wisdom) extracting those
portions that apply to managing the roots of complexity and developing a
practical teachable learning to learn tool.
Let me know if this sounds pertinent.
Wayne Reeves, PhD
Sunnyvale Calif.
Sun Microsystems Library
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> We are in the process of writing a practical managers guide to complexity
> to be edited in Quebec and in France in the French language. It may sound
> strange to talk about practical and complexity in the same sentence, but
> that is the challenge that we are trying to meet. There have been many
> references to complexity on this list, most of which, to my untrained
> ears, seem to elaborate on the origins and the philosophical underpinnings
> of complexity. Most of our research has been in French except for
> Wheatley, Forester, and a few others. So far we have found very little
> that provides layperson's ( read ordinary managers) access to the tools of
> complexity. And this leads me to my request to those of you who have
> dabbled in the world of complexity:
>
> Do you know of the existence of resources that have an operational bent to
> them. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated, and I could compile
> them and post them on the list.
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