Unfortunately, you need both for an effective book: if not within yourself, then in collaboration with others who can help you realize your goal. The author herself says several times throughout the novel that she's not the analytical research type but a feeling/perceiving sort. I felt as though I understood the aspects of emergent strategy far better through these examples than the bloated descriptions in the book's beginning, and that makes me sad. The book shines in the final section, likely because it's the part of the book that illustrates examples of how to actually practice emergent strategy. The introduction was an excessive ~40 pages and encapsulated the book's overall issue: not enough organization and trimming to communicate a vitally important concept to anyone who's not on the same wavelength as the author. Countless quotes bog down the overall message and create a murkiness that I as a reader could never recover from. I never felt as though I had enough forewarning when the book would suddenly divert into a blog post or speech. As it stands, Emergent Strategy is a rather disjointed sea of thoughts, quotes (so. I say this with the utmost love and respect for both emergent strategy as concept and the author: this desperately needed an editor.
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