Book by Virpi Oinonen: “Complexity is messy. Most explanations make it worse. This one doesn’t. We love clear causation. Root causes. Simple fixes. But many of today’s challenges in healthcare, cities, organisations or policy don’t work like that. They’re complex: tangled, adaptive, and full of unintended consequences. The trouble is that complexity is hard to explain to people who think in straight, causal lines. So I made it visible by drawing funny (and slightly irreverent) cartoons about it. Use the cartoons to understand the problem, explain it to others… or as therapy. Your choice…(More)”.
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