Given everything happening in the world today, finding opportunity in uncertainty has never been more important. Our economies rely heavily on our ability to predict the future. Organisations by their very nature aim to impose order on the complexity of the world to...
When the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion began exploring the relationship of professional knowledge to psychotherapeutic practice, he found himself recalling a line by the poet Keats describing, in a letter to his brother, what he called “Negative Capability”: “…that is...
In the past, some command-and-control managers viewed human organisations as machines. Those ‘machines’ would function with predictable outcomes when operated correctly. Nowadays, managers that embrace complexity theory adopt a radically different model: human...
