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Author: Denise Easton Publisher: ISBN: 9780997717600 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Industrial Revolution provided many tools that have made our current way of life possible. With over 100 years of success, they became the assumed, natural, "correct" ways to make change happen. For all of the benefits those tools offer, they are no longer sufficient to address today's complex systems and organizations. There are too many variables; too many changes happening too quickly; too much change -- to believe every issue can be deconstructed, decomposed, analyzed, prioritized, and the "one best, guaranteed way" implemented to address all of that complexity. We believe an additional set of concepts and tools is required to make sense of this complexity. We've named them the "Complexity Space Framework" and believe it offers a new lens for teams and organizations looking to survive and prosper in a complex world."
Author: Denise Easton Publisher: ISBN: 9780997717600 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution provided many tools that have made our current way of life possible. With over 100 years of success, they became the assumed, natural, "correct" ways to make change happen. For all of the benefits those tools offer, they are no longer sufficient to address today's complex systems and organizations. There are too many variables; too many changes happening too quickly; too much change -- to believe every issue can be deconstructed, decomposed, analyzed, prioritized, and the "one best, guaranteed way" implemented to address all of that complexity. We believe an additional set of concepts and tools is required to make sense of this complexity. We've named them the "Complexity Space Framework" and believe it offers a new lens for teams and organizations looking to survive and prosper in a complex world."
Author: Lisa Bodell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351817671 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
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Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm. By learning how to eliminate redundancies, communicate with clarity, and make simplification a habit, individuals and companies can begin to recognize which activities are time-sucks and which create lasting value. Lisa Bodell's simplification method has several unique principles: Simplification is a skill that's available to us all, yet very few leaders use it. Simplification is the right thing to do--for our customers, for our company, and for each other. Operating with simplification as our core business model will make it easier to be respectful of each other's time. Simplification drives culture, and culture in turn drives employee engagement, customer relations, and overall productivity. This book is inspired by Bodell's passion for eliminating barriers to innovation and productivity. In it, she explains why change and innovation are so hard to achieve--and it's not what you might expect. The reality is this: we spend our days drowning in mundane tasks like meetings, emails, and reports. These are often self-created complexities that prevent us from getting to the meaningful work that truly matters. Using simple stories and techniques, Why Simple Wins shows that by using simplicity as an operating principle, we can eliminate the busy work that puts a chokehold on us every day, and instead spend time on the work that we value.
Author: Rick Hood Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1526418835 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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Complexity lies at the heart of social work practice and this book is designed to help students and newly-qualified social workers plan for and manage complex cases in an increasingly complex environment. Split into two parts, this book reflects the journey of qualifying social work students from preparation for practice in an educational context to learning ‘on the job’ through working with service users in practice settings, and eventually assuming a more senior role in management, administration and training. Key topics covered in the chapters include managing volatility and uncertainty, making judgements and decisions, building and maintaining relationships, using reflection and supervision, working interprofessionally, managing risk, exploring cause and effect.
Author: Christopher M. Ford Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import ISBN: 0190915366 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 553
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The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies Series seeks to address several issues in the confluence of law and armed conflict, featuring chapters from world class scholars, policymakers and other government officials; military and civilian legal practitioners; and other thought leaders who examine the role of the law of armed conflict in current and future armed conflicts around the world.
Author: Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9780754670261 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 312
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Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of complex socio-technical systems. Cognitive Work Analysis: Coping with Complexity contains a comprehensive description of CWA, introducing it to the uninitiated. It then presents a number of applications in complex military domains to explore the benefits of CWA and pays particular attention to investigating the CWA framework in its entirety.
Author: Rosalind Armson Publisher: Triarchy Press ISBN: 1908009292 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 368
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This book is about dealing with messes. Sometimes known as 'wicked problems', messes (or messy situations) are fairly easy to spot:it's hard to know where to startwe can't define them everything seems to connect to everything else and depends on something else having been done first we get in a muddle thinking about them we often try to ignore some aspect/s of themwhen we finally do something about them, they usually get worse they're so entangled that our first mistake is usually to try and fix them as we would fix a simple problem.
Author: Fiona McDermott Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031386779 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 219
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This textbook provides a grounding in complexity theory, demonstrating how it can influence and shape social work interventions in policy, management, and practice, as well as forming an epistemological and methodological basis for research. It provides a contemporary theoretical basis for social work practice, equipping social workers to work in a 21st-Century world. The authors argue that the history of social work demonstrates the profession's engagement with the social and structural problems of each era since its emergence 150 years ago. However, in the 21st Century, such things as globalisation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change have highlighted that existing theories and practice models are insufficient to the task of working with the complicatedness of contemporary life in a fast-changing world. Distilling the central tenets of Complexity Theory and the notion of complex adaptive systems in partnership with pragmatism, the book provides practice perspectives and guidelines which build on social work's enduring commitment to understanding the person-in-context. The recognition that social workers require conceptual and theoretical agility to work across micro, meso and macro 'levels' remains central, but the argument is made that their focus and practice must primarily be at the meso level. The authorship of combined academic and practice expertise enables such perspectives to be brought to life through the theoretical and practical analysis of conceptual and 'real-world' challenges. The book consists of 13 chapters organized in three sections: Part I: Complex Practice in a Complex World Part II: Thinking Complexity in Practice Part III: Thinking Complexity in Public Policy, Research and Education Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice encourages social workers to 'think complexity' and 'act pragmatically'. It is intended for final-year social work students; academics and researchers working in a range of disciplines, primarily in the social work field but also in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology; and practitioners in policy, research, management and practice settings.
Author: Roger Lewin Publisher: Texere Publishing ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 356
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"The Soul at Work" brings a new way of thinking about and working in the new economy, one that draws on the new science of complexity that recognizes business organizations as adaptive systems.
Author: Sanjeev Arora Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521424267 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 609
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New and classical results in computational complexity, including interactive proofs, PCP, derandomization, and quantum computation. Ideal for graduate students.
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