■ The Big Idea
The science investigating Complex Adaptive Systems is a broad based inquiry into the common properties of all living things -beehives and bond traders, ant colonies and enterprises, ecologies and economies. Over many millions of years, nature has evolved strategies for coping both with prolonged periods of gradual change and occasional cataclysms in which only the most adaptive survive. The latter condition is familiar to many in organizations today. This book distills four bedrock principles from the living sciences and demonstrates their managerial relevance in a time of disruptive change.

■ About the Author
Richard Pascale is the co-author of The Art of Japanese Management and Managing on the Edge. He has written for the Harvard Business Review and appeared on the BBC television series Transformation. For twenty years he was on the faculty of Stanford Business School, and he is now an associate Fellow of Oxford University. Richard
lives in San Francisco and Washington DC.

Mark Millemann, now an independent consultant, was a senior advisor to CSC Index. He lives in Portland, Oregon

Linda Gioja, now an independent consultant, was a partner at CSC Index. She lives in Austin, Texas.