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Complexity
meets cognition
Books, essays, discussions about complex systems, knowledge, decision making and critical thinking.
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Critical Thinking
for Managers
"Critical thinking begins with understanding the importance of knowledge and questioning its reliability."
For managers, aspiring managers, or anyone wishing to take responsibility for their decisions. (This book is currently in Turkish only)
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The Tangled Braid: Humans, Machines, and Complexity
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How Do Ships Navigate: By Command? Or on Their Own?
How do ships really know where they are? Drawing on Edwin Hutchins’ ethnographic research, this essay explores distributed cognition, complex adaptive systems, and why effective leadership is about sustaining collective sense-making rather than command and control.
About
Dr. Afif Say
Author · Consultant
Cognitive Science · Complexity
Cognitive Science · Complexity
A life devoted to knowledge and thinking
Born in Istanbul in 1958, Afif Say graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1984 and worked as a doctor in rural Turkey for two years. He then moved into the IT sector, where he held senior management positions.
In 1994, he moved to the US and worked as a manager in the field of information management at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond. In 2005, he left his job to travel the world; he managed NGO management development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Upon his return to the US, he served as an adjunct professorial lecturer on the master’s and doctoral programmes at American University.
Afif Say, who has settled in Cyprus in recent years, writes books and articles, as well as working as a senior executive and consultant.