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systems practice, managing complexity
Sir Geoffrey Vickers: The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged hierarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some are involved functionally and laterally like the partners in a business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which an ecologist finds when he looks under a paving stone or in the Amazon jungle.
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