Robin Hamer complexity and business

words .... words

Mental models in complexity.

Focus on the ideas represented within the words as they stream past.

Click on a word or phrase to fix it within the thought flow.

words #1 | words #2 | words #3 | words #4 | word wall

rules and incentives

In this increasingly complex and fast changing world we need individuals who feel they can act. We need people who know how to improvise, know how to take others with them, know how to improve care, kindness and empathy ... and so figure out the right thing to do.

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self understanding and collective human behaviour

It's not just what you say but how you say it. Successful operators speak little and listen much... "Like a mother speaking sing song to a baby variation sounds perky and inviting".

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how the Peppered moth proved Darwin’s theory of evolution

...It’s a rather ordinary creature flying at night and hiding during the day on twigs and tree trunks where it uses its colouring to good effect camouflaging itself against the lichen covered tree bark.

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brains and behaviour

We are living in a golden age of scientific discovery about the most complex thing in the universe, our own brains.

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golosa 123

The golosa project contains some of the materials developed in Russia as part of a training package over a period of months in 2008. Sections include:

dynamic menu for the front page of the project
talking heads
powerpoint presentations
credit managers: gallery 1 | gallery 2
scary climbing fall | film clip
simple rules | picture gallery
top of the world

12 more books

From "At Home in the Universe" to "How Nature Works", twelve more books to explore. Links include personal web sites, media talks at TED and further reading to go with the authors.

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