Coherence in the Midst of Complexity

Author Michael Lissack: Michael Lissack is Executive Director and ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA; Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business, USA; Walter J. Hickel Professor of Leadership at Alaska Pacific University, USA; and a serial entrepreneur.

Introduction  Miracles and Nasty Surprises  The Failure of Models & Labels; the Success of Experience & Emergence  Two Kinds of Coherence – Ascribed and Emergent   Models, Homologies & Simulacra  The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick   Coherence and Business Success  Emergence, Coherence & Narrative  Affordances and Organization Homology: Sense-Making Revisited  But Experience is Different  Complexity Tools: the Semiotic Square & Homology   Steps to Implementation