The paper proposes an approach that gives a scientific character to the concept of network-centric management, and considered systemic paradigms allow to consider it as an engineering construction. It proposes the concept and management contour models of the first and the second kind, revealing communities’ management mechanisms and processes of their self-organization. They represent not only new opportunities, but also unfamiliar threats. Only basic knowledge of socio-engineering will help to build a security system, to ensure the survival and development of society. However, given any methodological complexity the human factor plays a decisive role. Management of complex systems requires self-dependence, intelligence coordination and real time actions, the synergy of knowledge, intuition and participants’ sagacity as well as harmonious interaction with the environment, including society.

Sholokhov had a pure soul. But by the nature he was rather tough, he took a principled stand in relation to what he considered reprehensible.

Professional should be a possessed person. Not in a bad way, not demoniac. One should always try to set up unrealistic goals, should not follow the path traveled.

People do not have time to listen to each other, look closely at each other. They have lost the ability to wonder and be surprised.