Edgeware: Insights from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders. Second ed.

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Edgeware: Insights from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders. Second ed.

March 6, 2005

Zimmerman B, Lindberg C, Plsek P. Irving, TX: VHA Incorporated; 2008. ISBN: 9780966782806

A workbook that presents a series of self-learning modules introducing concepts of complexity science.

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