We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today
is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world
we have created and the default ways we think about it.
Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from
the ones that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking
has not evolved to keep pace. We need to catch up. To make smarter
decisions -- as governments, organizations, families and
individuals -- we need more sophisticated mental strategies for
interpreting and responding to today's complexity.
Best-selling author and business leader Ted Cadsby explores the
insights of cognitive psychology, anthropology, biology,
neuroscience, physics and philosophy to reveal the gap between how
we typically tackle complex problems and what complexity actually
requires of us. In an accessible and engaging style, he outlines
ways to close the gap -- the strategic mental shifts that increase
decision-making effectiveness. The bottom line? We need greater
complexity in our thinking to match the increasing complexity in
our world, and Cadsby shows us how.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
..". Cadsby has done us all a favour with this lucid tour of
humanity's approach to thinking through the complexity of our world
... a helpful guide in how to think about our thinking." --ROGER
MARTIN, Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and
former Dean of the Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto, and author of "Playing to Win"
"Brimming with insight ... a book of ambitious scope, explaining
why we so often make poor decisions -- and how to do better.
Professionals in all fields will find it highly valuable." --PHIL
ROSENZWEIG, PhD, Professor of Strategy and International Business,
IMD, and author of "Left Brain, Right Stuff"
..". draws masterfully on a wide range of scientific findings ... a
remarkable wake-up call ...." --ROBIN M. HOGARTH, PhD, Emeritus
Professor of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and
author of "Educating Intuition"
"William James said we are only half awake. Ted Cadsby shows there
is a lot of scientific truth wrapped inside that metaphorical
truth." --PHILIP E. TETLOCK, PhD, Annenberg University Professor,
University of Pennsylvania Psychology Department and Wharton School
of Business, and author of "Expert Political Judgment"
"A courageous synthesis of cognitive psychology, complexity theory
and systems theory. Cadsby provides readers with practical
implications for improving their decision-making process." --GARY
KLEIN, PhD, Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC and author of
"Seeing What Others Don't"
..". distills the latest research in complexity theory and
cognitive science, and shows how we can debug our 'mental software'
to think and act more effectively." --DAVID ORRELL, PhD,
mathematician and author of numerous books, including "Truth or
Beauty and Economyths"
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