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How Chaos Theory will influence management and management styles in the future

Managers all over the world are faced with a critical challenge to their role. They ideas about management and their management style is being challenged. And this is even more important because many managers have reached a position of in their career where they thought they could “take it easy”. Nothing could be further from …

Managers all over the world are faced with a critical challenge to their role. They ideas about management and their management style is being challenged. And this is even more important because many managers have reached a position of in their career where they thought they could “take it easy”. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Today the role of managers in all industries is shifting. And in no industry more than the knowledge industry.

In this video I explore why this is happening and where we may be able to look for solutions. I also present a concrete set of consequences that will affect you as a manager from the trends we are witnessing in the knowledge industry.

Do you want to know more?

Ready to explore what you as a manager can learn from The Science of Chaos?

You came to the right place! 🙂 Mystes in Finland organizes a workshop about Chaos Science applied to the challenges of managing small and large knowledge work organizations. You can visit their site to know more about the workshop and to sign up. Places are limited. In that workshop I will touch on the following topics:

  • Current theoretical base for managing projects
  • What is wrong with managing software projects today and why?
  • What can we learn from Chaos Theory and how to apply it in real life projects?
  • A model for a successful project using what we have learned from Chaos Theory

Do you have specific questions that intrigue you? Send them to us and we promise to address them during the workshop!

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