How Long to Read Organizations as Complex Systems

How Long Does it Take to Read Organizations as Complex Systems?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 11 minutes to read Organizations as Complex Systems by Maurice Yolles

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Managing the Complex is an ambitious title - and it would be an audacious one if we were not to begin with a frank admission: to date few to none of us have a skill set which includes managing the complex. We try various things, we write about others, and we wonder about still others. When a tool, perspective, or technique comes along which seems to evoke success, we emulate it probe it and recoil at the all too often admission that it was situation and context which afforded success its opportunity, and not some quality intrinsic to the tool perspective or technique. Indeed, if the study of complexity has done anything for managers, and for those who espouse managerial theory, it is in providing a ‘scientific foundation’ for the notion that context matters. Those who preach abstract ideas have then to reconcile themselves to the notion that situation and embodiment matters. Those who believe in strong causality and determinism are left to wrestle with the role of chance, uncertainty, and chaos. Those who prefer to argue that men move history are confronted with the role of environment and affordances, while those who argue the reverse are left to contend with charisma, irrationality of crowds, and the strange qualities we know as emotions. A series on complex systems has less ambitious goals to contend with than this. Such a series can deal with classifications, and categories, and speak of ‘noise’ as if it were not the central focus of the problem. Managing the complex is about managing ‘noise’ or perhaps we should say it is about ‘dealing with’ ‘accepting’ ‘making room for’ and ‘learning from’ ‘noise’. The articles in this volume and in volumes to come will each be considered as ‘noise’ by some and as ‘gems’ by others, but we hope that practicing managers and academics alike will find plenty of fuel to drive their personal explorations into understanding, and perhaps even managing, the complex.

How long is Organizations as Complex Systems?

Organizations as Complex Systems by Maurice Yolles is 887 pages long, and a total of 227,959 words.

This makes it 299% the length of the average book. It also has 279% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Organizations as Complex Systems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 45 minutes to read Organizations as Complex Systems aloud.

What Reading Level is Organizations as Complex Systems?

Organizations as Complex Systems is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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