《不整理的人生魔法》點出了現代人的共同焦慮,也幫助我們找到面對混亂的最有效方法。書中舉出許多知名的研究與心理實驗,對處於快速變化環境下的我們與團隊運作都極有幫助。例如工作空間設計會大大影響員工的工作效率,好的設計可以強化合作能力,但所謂好設計,老闆想的和員工並不相同,研究指出,在凌亂的「賦能辦公室」工作,三個人可抵在「精實辦公室」的四個人。能激發創意,比看起來優雅重要多了。最能激發創意的地方,往往不在會議室,而是能讓人經常不期而遇,可以自在交流的地方。從政界、商場到戰場,有不少從亂中取勝且一再成功的人,哈福特提出許多亂是有道理的精采案例。隨著科技快速發展,我們的工作和組織的形式都出現快速變化,亂與創意同時成為我們生活的核心。
When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training--but none of that seemed to matter. To defeat Al Qaeda, they would have to combine the power of the world’s mightiest military with the agility of the world’s most fearsome terrorist network. They would have to become a "team of teams"--faster, flatter, and more flexible than ever.
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. Richly illustrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.
E.F.舒馬赫用哲學性和宗教性的思考,旁徵博引地闡明:我們能否追尋更充實的生活,激發內在才智和創造力,做出收穫幸福的選擇,取決四個認知層次的契合度——如何看自己、看他人、看他人眼中的自己和看世界。這是一部啟發心智成長的著作,指引我們構建理解世界的底層邏輯,讓自己成為主體,根據“內心”行事並作用於外界,從實際意義上看待人生並達到平衡。