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Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:04 PM<br>Subject: Complexity Demystified<br>To: <a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><div><table style="background-color: rgb(221, 234, 242);" width="100%" bgcolor="#ddeaf2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Michel,</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><i>"For every complex problem there is a solution </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><i>that is simple, neat and wrong"</i>�� </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">H.L.Mencken</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Trebuchet MS">The word complexity gets used at every turn by politicians, policy-makers, managers, community leaders and so on,�usually as an excuse for making a poor decision or for�reaching only a partial solution to�a problem. </font></span></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Trebuchet MS">The trouble is: </font></span></span></div>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Trebuchet MS">By default, we tend to look for simple linear solutions to problems</font></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Trebuchet MS">Linear approches always reduce or avoid the complexity of an issue</font></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Trebuchet MS">Complexity, by its very nature, can't be <i>managed</i> or <i>solved</i></font></span></span></li>
</ul><div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Management thinkers have turned to complexity theory for a new methodology that takes account of our interconnected and rapidly changing environment. <i>But,</i> <i>when it comes to putting the theory into practice, much of it can feel about as clear as mud</i>.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to Patrick Beautement and Christine Broenner, complexity practice isn't rocket science. By demystifying the theory, their practical Approach gives us the confidence to take <b>2 key�steps</b>:</span></span></div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Step 1: to </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>embrace</i> complexity rather than try to solve or avoid it.</span></span></div>
<div><b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Step 2:</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;"> to understand and apply <font>familiar terms like emergence, co-evolution, self-organisation, the edge of chaos, etc.</font> in our work and daily lives. </span></span></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.triarchypress.com/pages/ComplexityDemystified.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255) ! important;" target="_blank"></i><i>Complexity Demystified</a>�presents a clear Framework for applying a range of complexity techniques.�</div>
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<div><b>Part 1�</b>of this 2-part Guide evaluates and explains:</div>
<ul><li>the utility and limitations of academic complexity</li>
<li>how to be positioned, by design, to be adaptive and able to engage with constantly evolving situations</li>
<li>how to engage with dynamic phenomena on the fly</li>
<li>how to use their Approach and Framework for 'putting complexity to work'</li></ul><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">In <b>Part 2 </b>the practical application of the Approach is then considered in relation to six case studies.� Each case study explains how to understand and work with the underlying complexity of that particular context.</p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The book is written for managers, project managers, team leaders, 'change leaders', strategists, policy makers and concerned citizens as well as university students from a broad set of disciplines.</p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Thanks for reading,</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Michelle Smith</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(184, 27, 6);"><b>Foreword by</b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(184, 27, 6);"><b><b><i><font color="#b81b06">Professor Brian Collins, Chief Scientific Advisor, Uk Department for Transport and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills</font></i></b></b></span></span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(184, 27, 6);">... <span style="font-size: 10px;">Practitioners who are engaged in dealing with complex issues across diverse domains and contexts will find this book illuminating, thought provoking and most of all useful - in guiding them to... understand and then exploit that understanding for greater purpose... It should be on the bookshelf of anyone seriously engaged with any complex issue."</span></span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><i>Patrick Beautement</i> has over 25 years experience of implementing innovative studies and high-profile evaluations for government, academia and commerce.� He has been lead facilitator for a set of UK government sponsored workshops involving practitioners.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><i>Christine Broenner</i> has worked with practitioners in many domains and in international research and educational institutions.� She has been involved in projects in Europe, as well as in technical assistance missions for development cooperation in Africa and Asia.</span></span></b></p>
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