Michael Lissack
leadership capabilities essential for navigating complexity. Finally, we look toward the horizon, examining emerging complexity frontiers and envisioning organizations specifically designed to thrive amid complexity. This journey isn't about reaching a destination where complexity is conquered—that's neither possible nor desirable. Instead, it's about devel- oping the capabilities to navigate complexity with wisdom, adaptability, and purpose. The organizations that master these capabilities won't elim- inate complexity but will harness it as a source of innovation, resilience, and meaning. The old common sense was about dealing with the discrete elements of a complicated world. The next common sense is about mastering the com- plex web of interactions that define our digital age. Our original edition helped readers cut their own Gordian knots—those seemingly impossible tangles that yield to simple, dramatic strokes of insight. This updated edi- tion equips you to navigate a world where such knots appear daily, where yesterday's solutions become today's problems, and where coherence must be continually recreated rather than permanently established. As you embark on this journey, I invite you to approach complexity not as a problem to be solved but as a reality to be embraced. The organi- zations and leaders who thrive in the coming decades will be those who can maintain coherence amid complexity, who can sense and respond to emerging patterns, and who can guide interactions rather than control entities. This is the next common sense for a digital age. Let's explore it together.
Michael Lissack May 2025
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