Complexity Thinking by Jurgen Appelo

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Outstanding slideset from Jurgen Appelo, my thanks to Tom Gilb for sharing the link.

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Corporate Trust versus Social Media

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The explosion of Social Media based technology has seriously complicated the tasks of managing reputational risk and maintaining corporate trust. Without an adequate Social Media coping strategy, the perceived integrity of an organisation can be seriously compromised, globally, within hours.

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Complexity is good

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Like many others in the “logical” profession, I have been pre-conditioned to avoid complexity at every opportunity. Too often we seek simplicity where none really belongs.

The world depends on ambiguity variety and uncertainty so our systems must also have sufficient complexity; or as Ashby’s Law would call it: requisite variety.

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