Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. PDL – Personal Directed Learning: from Clockwork & Predictable to Complexity & Surprising. In complex environments it no longer works to sit back and see what will happen. Complexity: the new normal. Complexity: wirearchy. MORE >>

Complex, new problems need tacit knowledge to solve them. Exception-handling is Exception handling is complex work, which requires passion, creativity and initiative. Today’s complex work is tomorrow’s merely complicated or even simple work. In complex situations there is no time to write a detailed assessment. MORE >>

Jay has an image that shows that ordered organizations need to empower their employees to deal with more complexity, while those in chaos need to gain alignment in order to get out of chaos. Complexity is becoming the “normal” state, and it can be dealt with, but not with traditional management methods. complexity MORE >>

I have enrolled in a MOOC offered by Santa Fe Institute on Complexity. Introduction to Complexity. About the Course: In this eleven-week course you’ll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. Lecture units (approximate 1 per week): What is Complexity? Cities as Complex Systems. MORE >>

Via Jay Cross is this amazing synthesis – Organize for Complexity – of how complexity affects our work and the ways in which we can change our organizational structures to account for complexity, instead or adding more complication. If you know nothing about complexity, read this. MORE >>