Summaries of relevant books

Contributors

Toon Abcouwer

As part of their assignments students of the (V)ODC course studied a.o. the following areas (and books):

(some books were summarized by different groups. You can find their summaries by following the links.

• Understanding Judgment and Decision making
  • Jaworski, Joseph - Source, the inner path of knowledge creation
  • Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking fast and slow
• How traditional societies deal with essential human problems in a changing context
  • Diamond Jared - The world until yesterday
• Dealing with Chaos
  • Gleick, James - Chaos
  • Pascale, Richard T. a.o. - Surfing on the edge of Chaos
• On success in a world full of uncertainty
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - The Black Swan
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Antifragile
• Creativity and design to initiate innovation
  • Seelig Tina - inGenius
  • Brown, Tim - Change by Design
• The adaptive cycle of change
  • Gunderson, Lance H. & C.S. Holling - Panarchy
• On political order in Changing societies
  • Fukuyama, Francis - The origins of political order

These fields were chosen to better understand the dynamic settings we are in. Students made a summary of the books, linked their findings to the organizational (virtual) structures and focused on the specific role information (and ICT) is playing.

Contributors

Toon Abcouwer