- Perfect Paperback: 252 pages
- Publisher: Bloodstone Books (3 Nov 2011)
- ISBN-10: 0956766242
- ISBN-13: 978-0956766243
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In No Straight Lines, Alan Moore argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No Straight Lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.
`Alan Moore is a visionary, someone who takes concepts from many sources and detects the previously hidden relationship between them. He has a firm grasp of the changes which are reshaping our world, always pointing towards a more participatory, cooperative, reciprocal model of what our society might look like.'
Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, USC Annenberg School for Communication
`Economic transactions and markets have warped perceptions to such a degree that most people fail to see what is important in life, even when it's right in front of them. Alan Moore offers a vision that is at once more humane, more forward-thinking, and more realistic.'
Howard Rheingold, writer and critic
`No Straight Lines reads like a road movie from the rise of the assembly line mentality to the fall of the Berlin wall and the growing emancipation of people throughout our world via information technologies. As a true designer, Alan carefully articulates the changes in our society and, page by page, distils a new form to understand our world. Be prepared to experience the unexpected since this book will create a virus of the mind.'
Arjan Postma, Research Director - FreedomLab future studies
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A great catalyst for action,
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This review is from: No Straight Lines (Kindle Edition)
I think this is an important book. It picks up a trend that started in the last century with Charles Handy talking about "Cloverleaf" structures, annd grew quietly into this century with books from others increasingly concerned about the assyemtric and unsustainable nature of "growth", such as Porritt's "Capitalism as if thev World Mattered", and Umair Haque's "New Capitalist Manifesto" and "Betterness"What Alan Moore does really effectively is create a bridge from this thinking to the observations and thoughts of people like Seth Godin, Stephen Pressfield, Derek Sivers and John Hagel to paint a picture of how to add the "What" and "How" to the very large "Why" he describes. The book is well written, thoroughly researched and is a great base refence source for those of us interested in and committed to helping enable the change he foresees. I found his references to Richard Sennet particularly helpful, as I find the analogy to Craft in the way we work compelling. Perhaps most valuable of all is his synthesis of his arguments into six clear, actionable areas that give us, individually and collectively an outline of how to start getting "unstuck". In conclusion, and to repeat; this is an important book. Richard Merrick
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On my all-times top 5,
This review is from: No Straight Lines: Making Sense of Our Non-linear World (Perfect Paperback)
Alan has a unique understanding of the next generation business-platforms and organizational DNAs. This book is an excellent gathering of the most promising examples and cases - from which Alan spots the patterns, models and methodologies that can be extracted and unfolded - to be applied in another (own) context. An amazing book when you want to make a shortcut to learn new ways to succeed in complexity. Definitely a 2012 MUST read!
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Prepare to get your mind blown away,
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This review is from: No Straight Lines: Making Sense of Our Non-linear World (Perfect Paperback)
Alan Moore explains today's political, social and economical upheaval and crisis by an industrial revolution got awry and overextended, resulting in the chaos that most us feel today. "No Straight Lines" explains how we allowed ourselves to get lost as human beings among autocratic agendas, economies-of-scale and hyper-capitalism and how that era is now coming to a painful end. It's a very refreshing big picture explanation to our jaded everyday complacency and the never ending doomsday prophesies from politicians to broadcast media. It made me realize that we live in the best of times with an incredible opportunity to design a new better and braver world if we only can muster the leap from linearity to connected dots.The only way out of this dead-end is to rethink and redesign the way we live, work and play - from top to bottom. Alan Moore offer us his creative game plan for rediscovering humanity via natural human participation where craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and self-mastery will eventually replace hierarchies, lack of transparency and business as usual. Prepare to get your mind blown away - you will never look at the world in the same way again. I sure don't.
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