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The explosion of research on complex systems has given scientists profound new insights into how natural improvement occurs and how its power can be exploited. The book provides leaders in business and government with an in-depth introduction to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change. "Harnessing Complexity" is a step-by-step guide that managers can use to understand the processes of variation, interaction and selection that are at the heart of the authors' paradigm of bottom-up management. This simple yet revolutionary analysis of how people work together will transform the way we think about getting things done in a group. [From the back cover of the paperback edition.]
First publish date: 1999
Authors: Robert M. Axelrod
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