Word: kauffman
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...Kauffman smiled at his fellow grille master, and nodded in agreement. “This place is like my womb,” he added. If the grille is comfortable for these guys now, the bonding experience of working naked might make it even more so. Guilianelli admitted that “their butts touched” a couple times thoughout the evening, as the grille is “rather close quarters.” However, after recieving several “oohs” and “aahs” from female residents, these two single dreamboats...
...fair, kids like Kenny are the exception. "We're not trying to grab kids and indoctrinate them. We're not a bunch of weirdos," says Pennell. "We just want to help kids. And we think kids have a need for a relationship with God." Says Reese Kauffman, the Fellowship's president: "When children come to schools and shoot each other with guns, that's too late...
...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...
That is the question that Kauffman and other theorists have struggled for many years to answer, and their ideas are finally seeping into the business mainstream. "The machine metaphor dominated how we thought about businesses in the Industrial Age," Kauffman says. But now "the biological metaphor--thinking of firms as an ecosystem--is making its way into the business world...
...Kauffman founded Bios Group, a partnership with Ernst & Young designed to apply complexity science to Big Business. In five years, it has completed more than 50 projects for FORTUNE 500 companies, solving thorny problems of supply-chain management for Procter & Gamble (How do you get the soap from factory to home with optimum results for P&G, its retailers, and consumers?), decimalization for NASDAQ and crowd control for Disneyland (How do you avoid long lines at rides...