Articles
The following free articles are available to view and download:
A Brief Introduction to Complexity This paper by Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D. presents a brief introduction to some of the applications of chaos science to organizational development and behavior.
A Tale of Two Counties This paper was presented by Glenda Eoyang, and Lois Yellowthunder, Ph.D., at the Complexity, Science and Society Conference in Liverpool, England, in October, 2005.
The Beast This paper by Lois Yellowthunder provides a description of mob mentality through the lens of human systems dynamics.
Creative Chaos This paper by Glenda Eoyang illustrates applications of some metaphors of complexity applied in the creative process.
Crossing Borders: Globalization and Its Impact on Corporate Cultures This paper by Glenda Eoyang is focused on the concept of fitness and fitness landscapes as they apply to the evolution of survival strategies for individuals and organizations.
Evaluation in a Complex Adaptive System This article by Glenda Eoyang and Thomas Berkas, Ph.D. proposes methodology and tools for evaluation in complex adaptive systems, describing the critical characteristics that make this type of evaluation different from traditional models.
Far Out and the Way Back In November of 2005, Glenda Eoyang presented a joint keynote with Mary O'Hara Devereaux at the ODN Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're pleased to offer both the text of the presentation as well as the slides she used. To access the paper and the slides, just click on the title and following link to download both files. Far Out and the Way Back - slides
Human Systems Dynamics: The Landscape of Research and Practice This paper by Glenda Eoyang, and its accompanying table explores how various strands of the field are different and how these differences might enhance, rather than fragment, shared work.
It's About Voice This Power Point program by Royce Holladay, M.Ed., HSDP, was developed to describe an approach to creating an organizational culture of respect and productivity.
Matrix of Complexity: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Studying Emergence in Coevolution This paper, by Benyamin Bergmann Lichtenstein, looks at complexity research and its role in organization science.
Options for Action This Power Point presentation by Glenda Eoyang describes paradoxes found in human systems dynamics.
Organizational Change as Shifting Conversations This article by Jeffrey D. Ford explores producing and managing change within conversationally constructed realities.
Public Health and Human Systems Dynamics This article was presented by Glenda Eoyang at Complexity Science in Practice: Understanding & Acting to Improve Health and Healthcare (Plexus Institute, 2003) . It is a result of a structured conversation among public health leaders and human systems dynamics practitioners in Minnesota, and investigates some of the aspects of public health practice from the perspective of human systems dynamics with the goal of illuminating both domains - public health and human systems dynamics.
Simple Rules: Organizational DNA This article by Royce Holladay, describes the power of Simple Rules to establish patterns in organizations.
The Traditional Meets the Emergent: The Modernization of T-Groups This article by Kristine Quade compares the traditional T-Group to the HSD-Group and also explores concepts of feedback and group dynamics.
What it Takes: Perspectives for Facilitating This article by Royce Holladay and Glenda Eoyang looks at the role and tasks of a world-class facilitator.
Using Complexity Science to Facilitate Self-Organizing Processes in Teams Team building is generally successful if members and the leader are open, trusting, and committed. When these conditions are absent, the team is dysfunctional. In this paper by Edwin Olson, themes from complexity science are used to explain and prescribe interventions.
Strategic Planning vs. Adaptive Action Planning This brief table by Glenda Eoyang outlines the specific differences between traditional strategic planning and the use of Adaptive Action Planning, based on the Eoyang CDE model of complex adaptive systems.
After the Dance Glenda Eoyang and Kristine Quade have co-authored a chapter for the book Handbook of Large-Group Methods, edited by Billy Alban and Barbara Bunker, and published by Jossey-Bass (Wiley). This wonderful book provides a wealth of information about large-group interventions and technologies.
In their chapter, 'After the Dance,' Eoyang and Quade describe how the use of human systems dynamics can support an organization in maintaining the momentum to carry out the plans that emerge from large-group events.
Additional articles have been written by Kristine Quade, Glenda Eoyang, Anne Sturdivant and Linda Stevenson, using HSD concepts to describe the ways in which different large-group techniques are able to influence human systems. To access the papers, just click on the title to download the .pdf file.
After the Dance: Appreciative Inquiry and Patterns
After the Dance with Future Search
After the Dance with Open Space
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