Category Archives: Complex world

The Self-Organizing Society – Taking the Future in Our Hands

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

I conclude that Big Data, while potentially powerful and useful, is not a universal solution. I also explain why the concept of super-governments ruling their citizens or of companies steering their customers in a top-down way will not work on … Continue reading →

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Crisis Management in a Complex World

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

We confront a fundamental question about contemporary crisis management: to what extent is it possible to control events and stakeholder responses to them, in order to contain escalating crises or safeguard an organization’s reputation? In Crisis Management in a Complex … Continue reading →

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Human Resource Development in a Complex World

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

HRD in a Complex World presents a strong challenge to traditional HRD. Over the past ten years notions of complexity have emerged from the hard sciences and are now being applied to the social sciences. This is a highly contested … Continue reading →

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Complex Thinking for a Complex World – About Reductionism, Disjunction and Systemism

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

The following theses will be elaborated on: (a) The whole is at the same time more and less than its parts; (b) We must abandon the term “object” for systems because all the objects are systems and parts of systems; … Continue reading →