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Bread Crumbs and Brain Food. We are always scanning the world to discover provocative content, groups, and perspective we find relevant. Here is where we post links to what we've found.

"Complexity and Collapse: Empires on the Edge of Chaos" An article by Niall Ferguson in the March/April 2010 Foreign Affairs. Uses the idea of 'complex adaptive systems' to understand the rise and fall of nations.

Rough Type Nicholas Carr's blog. His first book, "Does IT Matter?", punctured the view of information technology as a source of competitive advantage. His latest work, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains", explores the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet.

"Capitalizing on Complexity" The 2010 IBM Global CEO Study, based on over 1500 face-to-face interviews with CEOs in 60 countries, representing 33 industries. The common denominator to improve strategic performance? The need for creativity at a "system-level."

Edge A group whose mission is "to arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."

"The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Cost" An article in the May/June 2008 Health Affairs where Don Berwick, recently-nominated to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, lays out his vision for reforming the American health care system. In it, he calls for organizations to assume the role of "integrator" at a macro system level.