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Lots more reading resources...
Probably the best and most accessible place to start is the series of articles published in the British Medical Journal in 2001, edited by Trisha Greenhalgh. These are all short, very readable, and highly recommended:
Complexity science: The challenge of complexity in health
care BMJ 2001;323:625-628
Paul E Plsek, Trisha Greenhalgh
Complexity and clinical care BMJ 2001;323:685-688
Tim Wilson, Tim Holt, Trisha Greenhalgh
Complexity, leadership, and management in healthcare
organisations BMJ 2001;323:746-749
Paul E Plsek, Tim Wilson
Coping with complexity: educating for capability BMJ
2001;323:799-803
Sarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh
Another fantastic resource is the primer made available as a Word Document on the Plexus Institute website. This contains a succinct and authoritative distillation of Complexity Science into 6 principles, which guided us as we approached the workshop day: http://www.plexusinstitute.org/ideas/show_elibrary.cfm?id=150
The RODEO project ("robust development of organisations in turbulent environments") was funded by the EU in 2004 as an educational project to support business. The produced a document summarising the six principles of complexity. You can see it here, in a rather good newsletter, available to download as a pdf: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/1794/RNL_06.pdf
This rather wonderful and absolutely packed site describes Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems just as I would like to: http://www.siliconyogi.com/andreas/it_professional/sol/complexsystems/index.html
And finally, some books which have made a real difference to our understanding of complexity and its application to our lives, in no particular order: Complexity and Postmodernism - Paul Cilliers, 1998, Routledge Complexity for Clinicians - Ed by Tim Holt, 2004, Radcliffe Complexity and Healthcare: an introduction - Ed by Kieran Sweeney and Frances Griffiths, 2002, Radcliffe Experiencing Risk, Spontaneity and Improvisation in Organisational Change: Working Live - Ed Patricia Shaw and Ralph Stacey, 2006, Routledge Sustainable Education (Schumacher Briefing #6) - Stephen Sterling, 2001, Green Books
And of course, once you start noticing it, Complexity keeps coming up everywhere you look! Recently reading an excellent book on curriculum, I found multiple references to complexity, unpredictability, paradox and uncertainty. If you want to dip in here too, you won't regret it: Medical Education: developing a curriculum for practice - Della Fish and Colin Coles, 2005, Open University Press
And those with library access might enjoy this brief paper which was published by the British Journal of General Practice in a supplement on Quality in October 2002: Complexity and Clinical Governance: using the insights to develop the strategy - Kieran Sweeney and Russell Mannion (BJGP 2002 Vol 52 (Supplement)
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