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\n<\/a>Background Information: Reference<\/h3>\n
Modeling Complex Behaviors Resulting from Simple Rules<\/h3>\n
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\nScott , P. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies<\/strong><\/a>. 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nComplexity<\/h3>\n
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\nHolland, J. H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity<\/strong><\/a>. 1995<\/li>\n
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\nStein, D. Spin Glasses and Complexity<\/strong><\/a>. 2013<\/li>\n
\nWilson, E. O. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis<\/strong><\/a>. 1975<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nManaging Complex Systems<\/h3>\n
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\nAllison, G. T. and Zelikow, P. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/strong><\/a>. 1999<\/li>\n
\nBinmore, K. Rational Decisions<\/a>. <\/strong>2009<\/li>\n
\nCollins, J. How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>2009.<\/li>\n
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\nKlein, G. A. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions<\/strong><\/a>. 1998<\/li>\n
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\nSpear, J.S. Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDesign<\/h3>\n
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\nDym, C. L. Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views<\/strong><\/a>. 1994<\/li>\n
\nNorman, E. D. Living with Complexity<\/strong><\/a>. 2011<\/li>\n
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\nVincenti, W. G. What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History<\/strong><\/a>. 1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEconomics and Technological Progress<\/h3>\n
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\nBrynjolfsson,E. and McAfee, A. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies<\/a>.<\/strong> 2014<\/li>\n
\nFogel, R. W. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World<\/strong><\/a>. 2004<\/li>\n
\nMokyr, J. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy<\/strong><\/a>. 2002<\/li>\n
\nTorsten, H. Technological Change and Network Effects in Growth Regimes: Exploring the Microfoundations of Economic Growth<\/a>. <\/strong>2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEthics \/ Values<\/h3>\n
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\nSinger, P. Rethinking Life & Death: The Collapse of our Traditional Ethics<\/a>. <\/strong>1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLeadership<\/h3>\n
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\nNye, J. S. The Powers to Lead<\/strong><\/a>. 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLean Concepts<\/h3>\n
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\nWomack, J. P., D. T. Jones, et al. The Machine that Changed the World<\/a>. <\/strong>1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nManagement Thinking<\/h3>\n
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\nIngo, W. Contemporary Leadership Theories: Enhancing the Understanding of the Complexity, Subjectivity and Dynamic of Leadership<\/a>. <\/strong>2010<\/li>\n
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\nGardner, H. Five Minds for the Future<\/strong><\/a>. 2006<\/li>\n
\nWilson, E. O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge<\/strong><\/a>. 1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe Nature of Research and Science<\/h3>\n
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\nFeynman, R. P. The Character of Physical Law<\/strong><\/a>. 1994<\/li>\n
\nMichael, C. World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines and the Internet<\/a>. <\/strong>2011<\/li>\n
\nMichio, K. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind<\/a>. <\/strong>2014<\/li>\n
\nPolanyi, M. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy<\/strong><\/a>. 1964<\/li>\n
\nPopper, K. Conjecture and Refutation: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge<\/strong><\/a>. 1968<\/li>\n
\nPopper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery<\/strong><\/a>. 1968<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNetworks<\/h3>\n
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\nGordon, M. D. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior<\/strong><\/a>. 2010<\/li>\n
\nNewman, M. Networks: An Introduction<\/strong><\/a>. 2010<\/li>\n
\nWatts, D. J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age<\/strong><\/a>. 2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHuman and Group Behavior<\/h3>\n
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\nAhrweiler, P. Innovation in Complex Social Systems<\/a>.<\/strong> 2010<\/li>\n
\nGigerenzer, G. et al. Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart<\/strong><\/a>. 1999<\/li>\n
\nMcGregor, D. and Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. The Human Side of Enterprise<\/strong><\/a>. 2006<\/li>\n
\nPage, S. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies<\/strong>.<\/a> 2007<\/li>\n
\nPinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature<\/strong><\/a>. 2002<\/li>\n
\nSawyer, R. K. Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems<\/strong><\/a>. 2005<\/li>\n
\nSurowiecki, J. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations<\/strong><\/a>. 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRandomness\/Uncertainty<\/h3>\n
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\nBaoding L. Uncertainty Theory: A Branch of Mathematics for Modeling Human Uncertainty<\/strong><\/a>. 2010<\/li>\n
\nHalpern, J. Reasoning about Uncertainty<\/strong><\/a>. 2017<\/li>\n
\nTaleb, N. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/strong><\/a>. 2010<\/li>\n
\nTaleb, N. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder<\/strong><\/a>. 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nStrategy<\/h3>\n
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\nAnsoff, H. I. Business Strategy: Selected Readings<\/strong><\/a>. 1969<\/li>\n
\nChan, W.K. and \u00a0Mauborgne, R. Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant<\/a>. <\/strong>2005<\/li>\n
\nChandler, A. D. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise<\/strong><\/a>. 1962<\/li>\n
\nMintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B. W. et al. Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management<\/strong><\/a>. 1998<\/li>\n
\nPorter, M. E. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors<\/a>.<\/strong> 1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSystems Thinking<\/h3>\n