"If you aren't following Jonathan's thinking today on how businesses and leaders should adapt and leverage modern technologies and paradigms to project management, get ready to eat the dust tomorrow of competitors who paid attention. Sapir has been consistently ahead of the game on handling the impact of emergent technologies in real-world business environments, and Thriving at the Edge of Chaos is more of the same, offering practical, insightful solutions to apparently intractable management problems in complex, fast-paced, resource-constrained environments."
- Scott Wilson, Callisto Media
"Jonathan has written one of the most coherent, deep, and ultimately useful books I’ve read in years. I wish I could mandate that my clients read it.
Experienced project managers will benefit from Jonathan’s insights such as improving project flow and a dynamic way of tracking project health. Meanwhile, new project managers will find a wealth of real-world wisdom on subjects ranging from task estimates, resolving resource conflicts, and nudging project teams toward success.
Both will find that Jonathan’s framework on Complex Adaptive Systems will reshape how they evaluate, plan, and manage every future project they lead. This book captures the simplicity on the other side of project complexity as well as any I’ve read."
- Michael Clingan - Principal, The Claymore Group
"This is a comprehensive, easily accessible text on the principles to employ to drive complex projects forward. I agree that that breakthrough performance comes from a different way of thinking about the problems in projects. If you want more of your projects completed in less time, these practical approaches will get you there."
- Mark Woepel, President, Pinnacle Strategies, author of Visual Project Management: Simplifying Project Execution to Deliver On Time and On Budget
"As a practitioner of applying adaptive systems theory to the improvement of business performance for the past 30 years, it has been my pleasure to work with Jonathan; a leader with intuitive insights into the engineering of emergent behavior within learning organizations. It is no longer sufficient to design business operations for performance. The pace of change increases steadily and change is the only constant. Organizations must be designed to evolve. Adaptivity occupies the sweet spot between stasis and chaos and successful companies must learn to surf within this dynamic zone. I am happy to have found such a capable ally in the mission to optimize performance from this holistic perspective".
- Scott Perry, Principal Consultant, Eweye Designs
"I’m an avid follower of Jonathan’s thoughts and body of work. Jonathan’s book Igniting the Phoenix: A New Vision for IT and interviews captured exactly what is now transpiring in terms of business transformation. I have quoted Jonathan on many, many occasions; his insights into understanding emerging key business issues both from the IT perspective and the line- of-business have been truly visionary."
Rod Smith, VP Internet Emerging Technology, IBM
"Jon is a wonderfully talented, exceptionally creative, and forward- thinking luminary that would be an asset to any technology team looking to add significant value to their organization and leap- frog their thinking. Jon has proven time and again that he can think things through, not only at a practical level, but also at a level of fore- thought that few venture."
Ron Schmelzer, Principal Analyst, Cognilytica
"Jonathan has a deep understanding of leading edge application development environments and a very practical sense of how best to apply technology for business gain. He is a visionary who has survived the technology wars with valuable experience and insight."
David Shimberg, Strategic Advisor, iDeliver Technologies LLC
