Chapter Complessità e generatività tra sviluppo personale e organizzativo: l’impulso di Adriano Olivetti nell’esperienza di Francesco Novara e il progetto CNR

Abstract

The chapter describes a methodology for human and organisational development, developed in a 17-year international CNR action-research project. The project saw the contribution of, among others, Francesco Novara, head of the Olivetti psychology centre for 30 years. The methodology, like the development practices at Olivetti, is inspired by Morin's complexity and by a personalistic view of the individual. It brings as added value innovative practices of generating change in a systemic and evolutionary way with a transformative learning approach, leading to a new framework of competencies suited to complexity, horizontal leadership competencies. The chapter also proposes the Olivettian experience of complexity, as developed by the psychology centre.