Coherence in the Midst of Complexity

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction Miracles and Nasty Surprises

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

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3. The Failure of Models and Labels and the Success of Experience and Emergence

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 11-41

4. Two Kinds of Coherence—Ascribed and Emergent

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 43-62

5. Models, Homologies, and Simulacra

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 63-82

6. The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 83-100

7. Emergence, Coherence, and Business Success

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 101-136

8. Emergence, Coherence, and Narrative

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 137-153

9. Affordances and Organization

   • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

   Pages 155-172

10. Homology: Sensemaking Revisited

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

    Pages 173-196

11. But Experience is Different

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

    Pages 197-220

12. Complexity Tools: The Semiotic Square and Homology

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

    Pages 221-237

13. Not a Conclusion Steps to Implementation

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

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14. Back Matter

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A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.

• business
• complexity
• organization
• organizations

"Every manager should read this book and take it to heart." Ian I. Mitroff, Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Author Michael Lissack: Michael Lissack is Executive Director and ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA; Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business, USA; Walter J. Hickel Professor of Leadership at Alaska Pacific University, USA; and a serial entrepreneur.

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