Business today remains tethered to a paradigm that is long out of date. This mindset assumes that universal answers exist: Businesses can simply apply compartmentalized operations and follow linear paths to success. Experienced managers know business doesn’t work this way. Where should they turn? In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite. This discipline—the study of behaviors in highly interconnected, adapting systems dominated by emergence—is revolutionizing fields from biology and economics to psychology and artificial intelligence. Recognizing a business as a complex adaptive system operating within other complex systems changes our perspective on everything from core concepts of demand, profit, and strategy to the nature of business success. Managers who grasp the order hidden within complexity discover not only a powerful new understanding of their role but also potential for dramatic contributions to success. The Complexity Paradigm features vivid examples ranging from local coffee shops to major corporations like PepsiCo, Boeing, Mattel, Starbucks, and General Motors as well as tech giants such as Apple and AT&T. Grounding eye-opening theory in the realities of business, this foundational look at complexity offers deep insight and value for practitioners and students alike. More at: cup.columbia.edu

Complex R.O.M.E. 2026 is an online free workshop that aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines interested in researching at the intersection of history with complexity science, network science, computational social science, mathematical modelling, and artificial intelligence. Complex R.O.M.E. welcomes both completed and preliminary research, as well as methodological contributions, new datasets, and position presentations. Senior and junior researchers are equally encouraged to participate, with the goal of fostering interdisciplinary discussion, collaboration, and new approaches to understanding the dynamics of historical societies. The 2026 edition will take place fully online on September 30–October 1, 2026, and participation is free. This year’s keynote speakers will be • Peter Turchin (CSH, University of Oxford, University of Connecticut) • Débora Zurro Hernández (IMF-CSIC) More at: https://complexrome.com/evento-2026.html 

The network of AI models reveals an expanding genealogy of reuse, modification and recombination.

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Jasper J van Beers, Marten Scheffer, Prashant Solanki, Ingrid A van de Leemput, Egbert H van Nes, Coen C de Visser PNAS 123 (27) e2608847123 From aircraft to power grids, controlled systems form a crucial part of human societies. Nonetheless, catastrophic failures happen. Many of those arise from the accumulation of incremental problems, such as natural wear and tear, that can go unnoticed until it is too late. We demonstrate that generic indicators of resilience can detect growing instabilities in damaged drones. The generic nature of our approach makes it compatible across diverse controlled systems. This not only allows for on-the-fly warning of instability but also facilitates anomaly detection during manufacturing and promotes proactive maintenance. A complementary application is to use our indicators for exploratory design, allowing one to “tinker” with systems through small adjustments and sensing quickly whether those worsen or improve system resilience. Read the full article at: www.pnas.org

Our world relies on a collection of interdependent networks, from critical infrastructure networks to social networks to biological and ecological networks. Each network on its own can have distinct timescales and display non-linear collective behaviors. This talk features how statistical physics provides a toolkit for analyzing these systems-of-systems including phase transitions and cascading failures and how future directions require partnering with the fields of non-linear dynamics and control theory. Watch at: www.youtube.com

"Marten Scheffer’s book, Tipping out of Trouble, will open your mind to how scientific knowledge can be turned into social change to address our most dire problems," writes Tim Kohler in this book rev...

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra problems, with astounding speed and precision. Some researchers have refer...

Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.

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This year, we are looking beyond the UK to explore how policy evaluation is evolving internationally. We’ll bring together leading voices from the US and Europe to compare and contrast how different r...

Join us for this open session as we discuss "The Implications of Complexity" and explore how self-organization, AI, and systems science are reshaping healthcare, transportation, and governance.

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