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Complexity science has seriously challenged long-held views in the scientific community about how the world works. These ideas, particularly about the living world, also have radical and profound implications for organizations and society as a whole. "Complexity, " "Organizations and Change," available in paperback for the first time, describes and considers ideas and insights from complexity science and their use in organizations, especially in bringing about major organizational change. It is about transforming the way people think about organizations, about their design, the way they operate and, most importantly, the people who co-create them. This book explains the history and development of complexity science in an accessible way for the non-scientific reader, describing key concepts and their use in theory and practice. These concepts are fleshed out with real-life examples from organizations in the UK, Europe and the USA.