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Simple_Complexity
- A Management Book for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Systems Thinking
- Narrated by: Todd Eflin
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Every manager knows a business is a system, yet very few have studied systems thinking or system dynamics. This is a critical oversight, one that Simple_Complexity remedies.
Simple_Complexity reveals the fundamental system archetype at work in your enterprise and prescribes new and exciting ways to reinvigorate your management thinking.
Picking up where the greats in management leave off, Simple_Complexity provides a systems context that powerfully enriches traditional management thought and practice.
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