Complexity and Business

When understanding complexity gets too hard for our feeble minds, go back to basics; as in biology and other sciences.
Here is an interesting deep thinking resource for all of us in the business of business. The Sant Fe Institute:
http://santafe.edu/research/topic/robustness-innovation/

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