Chris Mowles
@mowlescomplexity.bsky.social
Professor of Complexity and Management at the University of Hertfordshire. Blogs at https://medium.com/@chris_39461. Author of Complexity: a key idea for business and society.
Developing the practice of living together more productively
Complexity and 'convivencia'.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
You can watch my session at the Complexity Lounge here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG83... History, relationships, argument, all matter in the production of thought collectives.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You can watch my session at the Complexity Lounge here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG83... History, relationships, argument, all matter in the production of thought collectives.
How uncertainty is unevenly distributed in society.
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The politics of uncertainty.
...and how novelty requires redundancy, not efficiency
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September 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
How uncertainty is unevenly distributed in society.
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Improving performance
From KPIs to group mindedness
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September 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Playing the ratings game
How consumerism reduces qualities to quantities
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September 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
On the importance of thinking without a bannister.
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It’s all very well being critical, but what should we do?
On the importance of thinking without a bannister
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August 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On the importance of thinking without a bannister.
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The business of talk.
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Organising as continuous conversation
The business of talk
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August 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The business of talk.
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Reinterpreting the past in the present, in anticipation of the future.
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Always going forward
On the idealisation of the future at the expense of the past
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August 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reinterpreting the past in the present, in anticipation of the future.
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Thinking about the importance of experiential groups as a particular method for developing our humanity open.substack.com/pub/chrismow...
Becoming more fully human
in praise of experiential groups
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July 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Thinking about the importance of experiential groups as a particular method for developing our humanity open.substack.com/pub/chrismow...
You can find a link to the talk given by @carolynpedwell.bsky.social to this year's Complexity and Management Conference and my response here: complexityandmanagement.com/2025/06/19/t...
Transformative possibilities in the everyday: habit, affect, and the unconscious. A talk by Prof Carolyn Pedwell.
Prof Carolyn Pedwell gave an overview of her book Revolutionary Routines at the Complexity and Management Conference, 2025. You can watch her presentation here: In her talk she covered a number of …
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June 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
You can find a link to the talk given by @carolynpedwell.bsky.social to this year's Complexity and Management Conference and my response here: complexityandmanagement.com/2025/06/19/t...
Before fascism becomes a movement, it must circulate in everyday life.
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Before fascism becomes a movement, it must circulate in everyday life.
It has never been more important to pay attention to what's going on between us
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April 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Before fascism becomes a movement, it must circulate in everyday life.
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Ah, that's what theyre for.
April 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ah, that's what theyre for.
Book now for the Complexity and Management Conference, 6th–8th June.
Our subject the transformational possibilities of our everyday routines , the stable instability of social life. @carolynpedwell.bsky.social is our guest speaker.
Early bird rate ends soon. www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/pd/2363?code...
Our subject the transformational possibilities of our everyday routines , the stable instability of social life. @carolynpedwell.bsky.social is our guest speaker.
Early bird rate ends soon. www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/pd/2363?code...
Complexity and Management Conference 2025
Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious.
www.eshop.herts.ac.uk
April 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Book now for the Complexity and Management Conference, 6th–8th June.
Our subject the transformational possibilities of our everyday routines , the stable instability of social life. @carolynpedwell.bsky.social is our guest speaker.
Early bird rate ends soon. www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/pd/2363?code...
Our subject the transformational possibilities of our everyday routines , the stable instability of social life. @carolynpedwell.bsky.social is our guest speaker.
Early bird rate ends soon. www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/pd/2363?code...
An interesting piece on aesthetics, political atomisation and ideology: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst
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March 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
An interesting piece on aesthetics, political atomisation and ideology: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was interviewed recently by Philip McKenzie for his Deep Dive podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3zXR...
In the podcast we range far and wide over the implications of taking the complexity sciences seriously in our understanding of what is going on.
In the podcast we range far and wide over the implications of taking the complexity sciences seriously in our understanding of what is going on.
Episode 217: Complexity & Organizations w/ Chris Mowles
The Deep Dive · Episode
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March 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I was interviewed recently by Philip McKenzie for his Deep Dive podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3zXR...
In the podcast we range far and wide over the implications of taking the complexity sciences seriously in our understanding of what is going on.
In the podcast we range far and wide over the implications of taking the complexity sciences seriously in our understanding of what is going on.
When the weather’s like this, maybe on the cusp of spring, hats, coats, gloves feel a bit ridiculous.
February 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When the weather’s like this, maybe on the cusp of spring, hats, coats, gloves feel a bit ridiculous.
'When human beings are dependent on others for the most essential needs, the most moral response ought to be gratitude. But dependency also tends to trigger resentment and anger, which I think is part of the contemporary British condition'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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February 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
'When human beings are dependent on others for the most essential needs, the most moral response ought to be gratitude. But dependency also tends to trigger resentment and anger, which I think is part of the contemporary British condition'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
The Complexity and Management Conference 6-8th June 2025, entitled 'Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious', is booking now.
The currency of the conference is conversation in large groups and small.
complexityandmanagement.com/2025/01/14/c...
The currency of the conference is conversation in large groups and small.
complexityandmanagement.com/2025/01/14/c...
Complexity and Management Conference 6-8th June 2025 now booking
Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious. We are shaped by society, but at the same time we shape society in our continuous interactions with each other. Bet…
complexityandmanagement.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Complexity and Management Conference 6-8th June 2025, entitled 'Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious', is booking now.
The currency of the conference is conversation in large groups and small.
complexityandmanagement.com/2025/01/14/c...
The currency of the conference is conversation in large groups and small.
complexityandmanagement.com/2025/01/14/c...
Inside-out thinking brings 'out there' in here, and pays attention to in-the-moment socialisation processes in order to think more broadly about the patterning of human bodies. medium.com/@chris_39461...
Complexity and inside-out thinking
Most of the thinking I encounter aimed at helping organisations grapple with their problems has to do with maps and frameworks of a world…
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December 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Inside-out thinking brings 'out there' in here, and pays attention to in-the-moment socialisation processes in order to think more broadly about the patterning of human bodies. medium.com/@chris_39461...
Listened to an entrepreneur blather about the savings HE would make in the public sector which simply amounted to setting higher targets for savings. The one thing he opposed, working from home, is the one thing that evidentially makes people more productive. More prejudice than insight.
December 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Listened to an entrepreneur blather about the savings HE would make in the public sector which simply amounted to setting higher targets for savings. The one thing he opposed, working from home, is the one thing that evidentially makes people more productive. More prejudice than insight.