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Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society

Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society

An introduction to complexity theory and its application in organisations

2022

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The politics of uncertainty.

I have been working with a group of professionals, mostly in the health service, who shared some of their work dilemmas with me. In each of…

5 min readApr 26, 2024

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The politics of uncertainty.

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Do no harm

I have been in East Africa again continuing the programme on ethical leadership which began last July, a collaboration between an…

5 min readMar 10, 2024

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Do no harm

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The practice of leadership — ethics and hope in dark times

I have agreed to work in South Sudan developing an ethical leadership programme. I admit to a number of reservations to do with the fact…

5 min readFeb 12, 2024

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The practice of leadership — ethics and hope in dark times

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Thinking about how we’re thinking may help us when the chips are down

We are not unique among mammals in our ability to take ourselves as objects to ourselves. Some primates have this capacity, as do elephants…

5 min readNov 27, 2023

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Thinking about how we’re thinking may help us when the chips are down

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Talking about what’s going on means making yourself vulnerable

‘…the most admirable thinkers within the scholarly community you have chosen to join do not split their work from their lives.’

6 min readOct 24, 2023

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Talking about what’s going on means making yourself vulnerable

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It’s all very well being critical, but what should we do?

After a series of workshops a colleague observed to me that taking a complexity perspective is very good at taking apart the dominant…

5 min readOct 3, 2023

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It’s all very well being critical, but what should we do?

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Bringing your authentic self to work

What are we to make of the invitation to bring our authentic selves to work, or to lead authentically, an encouragement which often…

5 min readSep 25, 2023

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Bringing your authentic self to work

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The complex of past, present and future

Going forwards, either used to mean ‘what we’ll do next’, ‘in the future’, or sometimes just as a hollow place holder meaning absolutely…

4 min readSep 11, 2023

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The complex of past, present and future

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How our expectations of leaders may stop us thinking

Leadership emerged in all kinds of encouraging and unexpected ways during the crisis caused by the pandemic. It was a contemporary and…

7 min readSep 4, 2023

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How our expectations of leaders may stop us thinking

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Delivering change

Deliver, meaning to liberate (deliver us from evil), to give birth or to take something somewhere, has become ubiquitous in contemporary…

4 min readAug 29, 2023

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Delivering change

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Taking Experience Seriously

Taking Experience Seriously

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Chris Mowles is Professor of Complexity and Management at Hertfordshire Business School. He recently published Complexity: a key idea for business and society.

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