Michael D. McMaster

Michael McMaster was CEO of Transformational Technologies Inc and member of the founding group for business at the Santa Fe Institute, complex adaptive systems. He wrote two books in the mid 1990's applying complexity theory to organizational theory and practice: The books are The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity and the follow up book with specific approaches titled The Praxis Equation: Design Principles for Intelligent Organization.

In the intervening years, Michael's clients included British Petroleum, Amec Construction, Monsanto (Chemicals and Genetic Engineering, ICI Paints (UK), Merck, Unilever, Department of Energy and others. All produced breakthrough results. Our work with BP altered the way offshore oilfields were developed in Europe and Australia.

His books have been recommended by Dr. J.I.W. Anderson, Strategy and Technology Director, Unilever; Howard Sherman, philosophy of science professor and CEO, Midas Muffler; Arie de Geus, strategy director, Shell Petroleum; Lewis Maciver, executive, British Petroleum; Dr. John Warfield, professor George Mason University, Institute for Advanced Study in Integrative Sciences with complexity specialty;

Don Lavoie, former professor of organizational learning at George Mason University has written, Michael McMaster makes available a new understanding of the way that human beings create organizations. Written in a lively, down-to-earth style, McMaster provides the reader with useful and understandable design principles, metaphors, analogies and effective management and work practices.

McMaster has just completed a new book, What Is Organizational Intelligence? to update complexity theory and organization design required to take advantage of the exponential gains in many fields of technology and become disruptors in their field instead of being the disrupted one.