Coherence in the Midst of Complexity Advances in Social Complexity Theory [Paperback]

A?discussion on?the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.Introduction  Miracles and Nasty Surprises  The Failure of Models & Labels; the Success of Experience & Emergence  Two Kinds of Coherence  Ascribed and Emergent   Models, Homologies & Simulacra  The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick   Coherence and Business Success  Emergence, Coherence & Narrative  Affordances and Organization Homology: Sense-Making Revisited  But Experience is Different  Complexity Tools: the Semiotic Square & Homology   Steps to Implementation

Every manager should read this book and take it to heart. Ian I. Mitroff, Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Author Michael Lissack: Michael Lissack is Executive Director and ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA; Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business, USA; Walter J. Hickel Professor of Leadership at Alaska Pacific University, USA; and a serial entrepreneur.