complex responsive processes

The Complexity and Management Conference 4-6th June 2021 – The Complexity of Practice, is open for booking now. Here is the booking page. This year we are delighted to have Professor Hari Tsoukas, who is well...

Just a week to go before the Complexity and Management Centre’s online Symposium/Practicum exploring the role of conflict, particularly in the time of Covid-19. There are still a few places remaining, which you can...

Exploring the complexity of conflict and organising in the time of Covid-19 The Symposium booking site is now open and is available here . You can see the agenda for the day here. The following is a post by member...

Vision, the faculty or state of being able to see, the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom, is one of those grand words of contemporary leadership discourse which is nonetheless used on...

Exploring the complexity of conflict and organising in the time of Covid-19. The following is a contribution to the discussion leading up to the Symposium from Professor Nick Sarra, who is a member of the DMan faculty...

In the light of the Covid-19 crisis we have decided to cancel the 2020 Complexity and Management Conference as a face-to-face event. This is partly due to the fact that on current trends the pandemic will be at its peak...

This year’s Complexity and Management Conference on the theme of Complexity and Collaboration – implications for leadership and practice will be highly participative, and will involve lots of conversation about the...

Complexity and Collaboration – implications for leadership and practice Being part of a group engaged in a joint enterprise provokes all kinds of mixed feelings and responses in people: it can be uplifting and...

Complexity and collaboration – implications for leadership and practice The contemporary emphasis on collaboration in organisational discourse is counter-cultural. Managerialism depends a lot on metrics which...

Move fast and break things – this is the poster that one of the Tech Giant CEOs is supposed to have in his office. The invitation to ignore social conventions, perhaps even to avoid consulting people and talking...

Complexity and Management Conference 5-7th June 2020 If collaboration was that straightforward, wouldn’t we all already be doing it? Collaboration is another one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie words which are hard...

Particularly from a UK perspective, where public discourse has become highly repetitive, accusatory and frankly boring, there has never been a better time to stop and think about what’s going on for us and whether our...

What kind of experience can you anticipate at the Complexity and Management Conference 17-19th May at Roffey Park entitled: What does it mean to be critical? – complexity, reflexivity and doubt in everyday...

There are just three weeks to go before the end of early bird booking for this year’s Complexity and Management Conference 17th-19th May. As for the last two years we will also be offering a one-day introduction to...

The 2019 Complexity and Management Conference booking page is now open and can be accessed here. The title of this year’s conference is: What does it mean to be critical? – complexity, reflexivity and doubt in...

The 2019 Complexity and Management Conference booking page is now open and can be accessed here. The title of this year’s conference is: What does it mean to be critical? – complexity, reflexivity and doubt in...

Complexity and Management Conference – 17th– 19th May 2019, Roffey Park Institute. One of the difficulties of thinking, as Hannah Arendt pointed out, is that it tends to unravel things. Next year’s conference will...