CHAPTER 1Complexity Thinking
“I am convinced that the nations and people who master the new sciences of complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.”
—HEINZ PAGELS, PHYSICIST
Dr. Gerry Gingrich, instructor at the Information Resources Management College, National Defense University, states: “Military thinkers, politicians, scientists, and corporate executives are all looking for ways to understand the dynamics of global change and to prepare for the 21st century. Many are looking to the new science of complexity for answers. The science of complexity, however, does not yield answers, at least not in the sense that we have typically sought to describe our world and predict its events since the ...
Get Managing Complex Projects now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
