NECSI's many activities linking the study of complex systems and the management
of organizations are blossoming

Managing the Complex (MTC) may have been only a four day event in March but
NECSI is pleased to announce that the event lives on .. on the web

please visit http://www.proceedings.net/MTC/

Our new journal:  Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations
and
Management has appeared in print!!
See the web site:  http://www.emergence.org
Subscriptions are available from [log in to unmask]
We are seeking articles submissions for issues 4, 5, and 6  (Winter 1999 to
Spring 2000). The next issue will feature a review of the many books now
available on complexity and management.  Coming this summer.

NECSI and the Academy of Management are sponsoring a full day workshop
Complexity and Management -- Two Interacting Sciences?,
August 7, in Chicago at the AoM annual meeting.
Please see http://emergence.org/AoM.html for more details

On a personal note:  John Seely Brown called it: "Mind expanding. Beautifully
written. Finally, a book that sees to the core of complex adaptive systems,
revealing new ways to "see" the world and to lead"
The Next Common Sense: Mastering Corporate Complexity Through Coherence is
summarized and available through http://coherence.org
along with added material about coherence, complexity, and management

MTC has a health care workshop planned for October, and two conferences planned
in Japan (September and November) email me for more details

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Michael Lissack <[log in to unmask]>
Director, Organization Science Related Programs,
New England Complex Systems Institute
24 Mount Auburn St, Suite #2, Cambridge MA 02138
Editor-in-Chief, Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues
In Organizations and Management
32 Garrison Street, Apartment #50-104, Boston MA 02116
http://lissack.com, http://necsi.org, http://emergence.org
phone 617-536-4109 fax -- 617-249-0663
32 Garrison Street, Apartment #50-104, Boston MA 02116
phone 617-536-4109 fax -- 212-208-4349