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Chris Mowles

@mowlescomplexity.bsky.social
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Professor of Complexity and Management at the University of Hertfordshire. Blogs at chrismowles.substack.com. Author of Complexity: a key idea for business and society.

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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There's nothing already there to be made clearer by applying a lens. My latest:
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some thoughts arising from young people asked to talk about the particular dilemmas facing their generation. chrismowles.substack.com/p/talking-bo...
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here are some resources on complexity, uncertainty and emergence from a variety of different fields, to challenge orthodox thinking:
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thinking about the role of consultants and leaders in organisations, and how to get out of the way.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thinking about the invitation to 'we-ness'.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Some thoughts on the political and ethical implications of having 'difficult conversations.'
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My latest post on Substack about the politics of groups.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thinking about improvisational groups and speculative pragmatism.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Starting with experience and working with emergent method:
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Latest post on pragmatic and process approaches to change.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ah, that's what theyre for.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When the weather’s like this, maybe on the cusp of spring, hats, coats, gloves feel a bit ridiculous.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This year’s Complexity and Management Conference, 6-8th June 25 has Prof Carolyn Pedwell as keynote. The conference is entitled: Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious. You can book here: www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/pd/2363?code... The fee includes all costs.
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Winter walk
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The ubiquitous use of ‘tool’ as I mentioned in a previous post rather than symbol in this case
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Chris Mowles @mowlescomplexity.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Published today: Complexity and Organisations: researching practice. if you want to read about the role of grief and loss, culture and belonging, doubt, shame, disappointment, compromise, non-human actors, the politics of endings and ethics, then this volume will be of great relevance.
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