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"Getting to Maybe" is Brenda Zimmerman's new book, published by Random House, and available through major booksellers.

From "Getting to Maybe":
"It is not a good time for control freaks.

But it is a good time for those capable of living with uncertainty. Times of great complexity offer the possibility of transformation. Those willing to embrace complexity are offered some immunity from the sense of "being stuck" that afflicts so many, from the feeling that the system can't be changed, that we have to accept famine, disease or war as inevitable... Getting to maybe has almost nothing to do with certainty and everything to do with serendipity, conviction, risk taking and faith."



  • A Board's Journey into Complexity Science: Lessons from (and for) Staff and Board Members
           view abstract       DOC       PDF       DOC (zipped)       PDF (zipped)

  • Canadian Evaluation Society Meeting: Matching Evaluation to the Nature & Conceptualization of the Problem
           PPT      

  • Changes in Governance
           PPT excerpts

  • Charities Doing Commerical Ventures: Societal and Organizational Implications
           PPT       PPT (zipped)

  • Edgeware - Excerpt from Brenda Zimmerman's book
    [available for purchase at Caversham Booksellers]
           DOC

  • "Exploring Generative Relationships" - S.T.A.R.
           view article

  • Generative Relationships S T A R published in 'Voices in the Field'
           PDF             PDF (zipped)

  • Health Care Commission: Discussion Paper
           view abstract       PDF       PDF (zipped)

  • Health Care Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems
           DOC       PDF       DOC (zipped)       PDF (zipped)

  • Managing Changeability: Workaholism versus Work-holism
           view abstract       DOC       PDF       DOC (zipped)       PDF (zipped)      

  • Merger as Marriage: Communications Issues in Post-Merger Integration
           DOC       PDF       DOC (zipped)       PDF (zipped)      

  • Mergers versus Emergers: Structural Change in Health Care Systems
           view abstract       PDF (zipped)

  • National Voluntary Organizations: It's Time to Differentiate Voluntary Sector Education
           DOC       DOC (zipped)

  • Non-Profit Organizations: Key Dimensions
           PPT       PPT (zipped)

  • Non-Profit Governance Models: Problems and Prospects
           view article

  • Primer on Complexity
           DOC

  • Principles of Complexity Applied to Health Care
           PDF

  • Strategic versus Scenario Planning - A Short Overview
          PPT

  • Tension Through Suspension: Systemic Barriers to Changeability
           view article       DOC       PDF       DOC (zipped)       PDF (zipped)

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