A Strategist's Guide to Causality in Complex Systems: Moving Beyond Planning to Adaptive Intervention...

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Caspian Lux

A Strategist's Guide to Causality in Complex Systems

Name: A Strategist's Guide to Causality in Complex Systems
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ISBN: 9798233077630

Moving Beyond Planning to Adaptive Intervention

Caspian Lux

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English

Axial Press
03 February 2026

Cybernetics & systems theory; Business strategy; Management decision making

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Strategic failure in complex systems is rarely a problem of execution. It is a problem of causal reasoning.

In environments characterized by nonlinearity, feedback, and emergence, traditional planning frameworks misidentify leverage and overestimate control. Decisions made on the basis of correlation, historical extrapolation, or simplified models often produce unintended and persistent effects.

A Strategist's Guide to Causality in Complex Systems presents a disciplined framework for reasoning about causation, intervention, and system behavior under uncertainty. Drawing on complexity science, causal inference, and network thinking, the book emphasizes model humility, empirical testing, and ethical restraint.

Written for advanced practitioners and scholars, it treats strategy as an epistemic practice rather than a predictive science.

This is not a methodology promising outcomes. It is a framework for disciplined intervention when certainty is unavailable.

By: Caspian Lux
Imprint: Axial Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9798233077630
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active