...Dr Roberto Poli; Jack Birner Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an outline of the main topics of an introductory course in complexity and social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – This paper consists of a survey of the main issues and some of the classical literature...

... and individuals that are capable of continuously expanding and expressing their internal variety and complexity while rapidly decreasing the gaps between learning and doing. Research limitations/implications – The principle of requisite variety has been well known to cybernetics and systems communities...

...Jim Sheffield; Shankar Sankaran; Tim Haslett Purpose This paper seeks to address complexity in project management via an innovative course that focuses on systems thinking. Design/methodology/approach Intuitions about systems thinking evident in everyday language are developed...

...Alexander Dilger Purpose Complexity is endogenous for humans and increasing at an accelerating rate. At the same time individual lives become better and even simpler. This seems to be a paradox for which this paper aims to offer a solution. Design/methodology/approach The paradox...