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Organizational life is increasingly complex. Globalization, technology, disruption, and constant change affect public and private organizations, the large and the small, the contemporary and the traditional. But there’s one apparently simple thing that they all share and that is both part of the increasing complexity they face and also a key to managing that complexity.

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  1. P. Senge (1990) The Fifth Discipline (New York: Doubleday).

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Baker, T., Warren, A. (2015). Introduction. In: Conversations at Work. Palgrave Pocket Consultants. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534187_1

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