How do you go about embracing complexity? It's complicated

Surprisingly enough complexity turns out to be complicated to handle - but here two physicists offer a set of principles for where to start

Jean Boulton is a onetime theoretical physicist turned consultant, and one of her passions is complexity and systems thinking, and their implications for how organisations, including development agencies, go about their work.

She's teamed up with fellow lapsed physicist Peter Allen, and Cliff Bowman (a "theorist and practitioner of strategy," whatever that is) to write Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence, a smart, 250-page introduction to complexity and its implications for action.