Engaging Emergence

NOTES

Preface

1. My notion of patterns comes from architect Christopher Alexander. Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).

2. Peggy Holman and Tom Atlee, “Evolutionary Dynamics and Social Systems,” Integral Leadership Review VIII, no. 2 (March 2008).

Introduction: From Chaos to Coherence

1. Bill Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).

2. Mark Fitzgerald and Jennifer Saba, “Special Report: Turn and Face the Change—With Newspaper Industry in Crisis, ...