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Change and uncertainty

KEY DATES

1992 M. Mitchell Waldrop writes Complexity, which explains the theory of the science of complex systems.

1997 Researcher Shona Brown says that the edge of chaos has a structure that allows companies to be malleable enough to change but not fall apart.

1999 In Surfing the Edge of Chaos, Richard Pascale, Mark Millemann, and Linda Gioja say a too-rigid management system can have nothing original or innovative emerge from it.

2000 The dot-com bubble bursts, causing turmoil in financial markets.

September 2001 The 9/11 terror attacks in the US have far-reaching financial and business impacts around the world. ...

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