The word “bias” is richly imbued with implications of censure. It is not, after all, a good thing to be…
Business and Strategy
For that past 3 years I’ve been writing a book on complexity and business using a bit of an archaic…
In the past year I discovered the essays of Isaiah Berlin. Berlin was a historian of ideas and the Enlightenment…
While there’s some exceptional writing about complexity in business, there’s not enough. Too many business writers and consultants work hard…
I encountered complexity science in 1981 when looking at ecological stability in a U. Colorado differential equations class. The prof,…
In the US, our population seems to have arrived at two political extremes — those who reject science because they…
The work of W. Edwards Deming is brilliant, wise, and insightful leading me to quote him often. But I didn’t…
Decades of consultant programs and textbooks have trained those of us in business to assume that anything worth learning can…
Writing my book on complexity and chaos in business I’ve been covering the topic of emergence — an issue of…
The following is a “thought experiment” considering new ways to view Amazon with respect to antitrust. Thoughts and responses which…