Difference between revisions of "Summaries of relevant books"
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* Understanding Judgment and Decision making | * Understanding Judgment and Decision making | ||
**[[Summary of Joseph Jaworski - Source, the inner path of knowledge creation|Jaworski, Joseph - Source, the inner path of knowledge creation]] | **[[Summary of Joseph Jaworski - Source, the inner path of knowledge creation|Jaworski, Joseph - Source, the inner path of knowledge creation]] | ||
| − | ** [[Summary of Daniel Kahneman - Thinking fast and slow|Kahneman Daniel - Thinking fast and slow]] | + | ** [[Summary of Daniel Kahneman - Thinking fast and slow|Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking fast and slow]] |
* How traditional societies deal with essential human problems in a changing context | * How traditional societies deal with essential human problems in a changing context | ||
** [[Summary of Jared Diamond - The world until yesterday|Diamond Jared - The world until yesterday]] | ** [[Summary of Jared Diamond - The world until yesterday|Diamond Jared - The world until yesterday]] | ||
Revision as of 09:08, 12 June 2014
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
- How traditional societies deal with essential human problems in a changing context
- 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.
