Our healthcare environment is incredibly complex and is changing rapidly.
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.
Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.
He was arguing against the point of view that military success in the future will depend on technology.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
The average individual lives in a high impact, complex, visual environment.
There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.