Models That Can Aspire to be Better Suited to Future Needs -- Disassembling Some Traditional Views / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Is Globalization, or Holism, Really a New Phenomenon / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Underlying Disturbing Processes: Asymmetries, Coriolis and Chirality / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Time and Space Revisited in the Context of Complex Systems / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- The Entropy of Systems / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- On Competitiveness: Nature as an Obvious Approach in Sustainability -- A Continuous Survival of Species? Crisis and Consciousness Productions / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Aging and Survival: Application to Human Beings, Eusociality and an Inclusive Society / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Evolution of Life Principles: Application to a Corporate Population / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Golden Secrets and Mechanisms -- Technology Totalitarianism in Society, Change Management and Governance Concerns / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Principles and Practical Mechanisms of Self-Organization: In a Worldwide Cooperative Context / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Complex Systems Appraisal: Sustainability and Entropy in a Worldwide Cooperative Context / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi -- Telepathy and Telesympathy / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book discusses the key concepts of the technologies that underpin the drive towards sustainability in today's complex world. The authors propose an integrated view of the frontiers facing any organization nowadays - whether an enterprise, an administration or any human collective construction - that operates with a goal, a mission or an objective. While a unified approach still seems unachievable, the authors have nevertheless tackled the amalgamation of the underpinning elements (theories, domains of expertise and practice) and propose a model for assimilating the new concepts with a global view to design the sustainable organizations of the future. The book paves a way towards a general convergence theory, which will manifest, as a by-product, genuine sustainability. Furthermore, and due to the fact that the same main principles apply, the book redesigns the notion of "competitiveness", which today is too often simply reduced to profitability

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