Lissack and Rhoos, "The Next Common Sense" (Nicholas Brealey, 1999), an attempt to define how the business common sense dominated by a complexity approach differs from the traditional common sense.

Stacey, "Complexity and Creativity in Organizations" (Berrett-Kohler, 1996), defining the conditions at the edge of chaos, in which creativity can best occur.

Petzinger, "The New Pioneers" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), full of stories of business people now using the principles suggested by complexity theory in their daily work.

Goldstein, The Unshackled Organization. Fairly basic but a good read.

Kelly and Allison, the Complexity Advantage. A Business Week publication aimed at business readers.

Capra, The Web of Life. Here you benefit from a knowledge of biology and physics, but it is a great book.

Dorner, The Logic of Failure. This book brilliantly describes how many bad decisions are made and emphasizes that we like to think in linear, isolated, instanteous terms. Most decisions are networked, non-linear, and have time delays. A large variety of real world and simulated examples. Has not gotten the attention it deserves. One example is Chernobyl.

"Corporate DNA" (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998), exploring what happens when people think of their businesses as living things operating in market ecologies.

The Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature by Philip Ball Hardcover - 248 pages (December 1998) Oxford Univ Pr (Trade), ISBN: 0198502443

( The above reading list was contributed in posts to the complex-science@necsi.org Forum )