Next Common Sense: An E-Manager's Guide to Mastering Complexity - Softcover

This work concentrates on the new ideas of complexity science and the new disciplines of the complex organization. The authors outline ten simple guidelines and a five-step action plan which set out to make business complexity understandable and make sure that it does not get the better of you.

Michael Lissack is the Director of Organization Science Related Programs at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and the editor-in-chief of NECSI's journal, Emergence. An investment banker at Smith Barney for nearly fifteen years, financing more than $35 billion of infrastructure projects, he has recently turned his focus to Internet start-up firms, including Tripod and Intelligenesis, as an investor, board member, and strategic advisor. Johan Roos is Porfessor of Strategy and General Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland where he directs the Strategic Imagination Lab research project, several in-company executive programs and a consortium program. He is the co-founder and board member of Intellectual Capital Services and Executive Discovery and a strategic advisor to multinational companies in the US, Europe, South Af