In a recent blog post, Stephen Billing looks forward to Ralph Stacey’s next book, Complexity and Organizational Reality. It is due to be published in December. Definitely one for the Christmas list!
I had become aware of the book through a comment posted on the NorthShore Group blog by Lucy Garrick. This included the transcript of a response that Stacey had made to her question about his oft-quoted Certainty-Agreement matrix.
Although the framework, which Stacey had developed in the mid-1990s, regularly crops up in blogs, on websites and during presentations, he no longer sees it as valid and useful. His comment explains why this is the case, and the implications that this has for his current view of complexity and organizational dynamics.
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