The Next Common Sense: Mastering Corporate Complexity Through Coherence

There is no denying that the world is a complex place. The challenge is what to do about it. Contrary to the popular notion that complexity either can be abolished or not, worse yet, be left to raise havoc in the boundaryless organization, authors Lissack and Roos argue persuasively for a new way of thinking and dealing with the realities of modern business.

Michael Lissack is the Director of Organization Science Related Programs at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and the editor-in-chief of NECSI's journal, Emergence. An investment banker at Smith Barney for nearly fifteen years, financing more than $35 billion of infrastructure projects, he has recently turned his focus to Internet start-up firms, including Tripod and Intelligenesis, as an investor, board member, and strategic advisor. Johan Roos is Porfessor of Strategy and General Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland where he directs the Strategic Imagination Lab research project, several in-company executive programs and a consortium program. He is the co-founder and board member of Intellectual Capital Services and Executive Discovery and a strategic advisor to multinational companies in the US, Europe, South Af