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 -- 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