First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Martin’s Press (2013) This is another “time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” Tom Davenport (collective judgment) Lao Tzu Peter Senge (organizational learning) Robert Greenleaf (servant leadership) St.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Of all the definitions, I like Peter Senge''s old but simple one best. Senge''s distinction between detail complexity (driven by the number of variables) and dynamic complexity (heightened by any subtlety between cause and effect) is not only key to explaining why some overhyped tools don''t deliver.

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