When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and SpiritualityCollision and convergence in Truth and Beauty.BY MARIA POPOVA

When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality – The Marginalian

How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser · The Dig

A strong, interesting, and deeply systemic analysis.

How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser17 Jul 2022Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, borders, appropriation of nature, sexism, racism, and more. Dan’s 2018 interview from the archives.

How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser · The Dig

Self-Assembling Wires

Stanford Complexity Group

Self-Assembling Wires – YouTube

See also https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordComplexity

Intention or Attention? Humbling Design through Systems Changes Learning | Zaid Khan | ST-ON 2022-05-09 July 24, 2022

Intention or Attention? Humbling Design through Systems Changes Learning | Zaid Khan | ST-ON 2022-05-09 – Coevolving Innovations

Humanism, the Anthropocene, and Enemies of the Systems Approach | David Ing + David L. Hawk | ST-ON 2022-04-11 July 23, 2022

Humanism, the Anthropocene, and Enemies of the Systems Approach | David Ing + David L. Hawk | ST-ON 2022-04-11 – Coevolving Innovations

Sudakov 1997 The Theory of Functional Systems General Principles

Sudakov 1997 The Theory of Functional Systems General Principles | PDF | Classical Conditioning | Homeostasis

AUG.03Redefining Leadership in the 21st Century: the view from Cyberneticsby ANU Engineering & Computer ScienceFollow286 followersFreeActions and Detail PanelLike EventRegisterDate and timeWed., 3 August 20224:00 pm – 5:30 pm AESTLocationInnovation Space, Level 2 Birch Building #35, The Australian National University35 Science RoadActon, ACT 2601Australia

Redefining Leadership in the 21st Century: the view from Cybernetics Tickets, Wed 03/08/2022 at 4:00 pm | Eventbrite

The Architecture of ComplexityHerbert A. SimonProceedings of the American Philosophical SocietyVol. 106, No. 6 (Dec. 12, 1962), pp. 467-482 (16 pages)Published By: American Philosophical Society

The Architecture of Complexity on JSTOR

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A Maturing of Systems Thinking? Evidence from Three PerspectivesFebruary 2004

Systemic Practice and Action Research 17(1):3-36DOI:10.1023/B:SPAA.0000013419.99623.f0Project: The relationship between systemic thinking and action researchAuthors:John BartonRMIT University Melbourne AustraliaMerrelyn EmeryConcordia University MontrealRobert FloodNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyJohn W. SelskyInstitute for Washington’s Future

(PDF) A Maturing of Systems Thinking? Evidence from Three Perspectives

Both quaintly anachronistic and depressingly contemporary…

Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks Jennie Popay, Margaret Whitehead, Ruth Ponsford, Matt Egan, Rebecca MeadHealth Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1253–1263, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa133Published: 31 December 2020

Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Boundary Objects and Artful Integration

I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant. This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and other body parts, managing transfers from donors to recipients.One of the interesting challenges for this kind of organization is the need for collaboration between different specialist disciplines. Some teams are responsible for engaging with potential and regular donors, encouraging and arranging donation sessions for blood and plasma. Meanwhile there are other teams who need an extremely precise biomedical profile of each donor, to ensure safety as well as identifying people with rare blood types. While there is a conceptual boundary between these two sets of concerns, the teams need to collaborate effectively and reliably across this boundary.So in terms of data and interoperability, we have an entity (in this case the donor) that is viewed in significantly different ways, but with a common identity. In the past, I’ve talked about two-faced entities or hinge entities, but the term that is generally used nowadays is Boundary Object.

CONTINUES IN SOURCE: Architecture, Data and Intelligence: Boundary Objects and Artful Integration

Book seriesContemporary Systems Thinking

Contemporary Systems Thinking | Book titles in this series

Feedback EconomicsEconomic Modeling with System Dynamics

Feedback Economics | SpringerLink

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Feedback Economics

Economic Modeling with System Dynamics

Editors:

• Robert Y. Cavana, 
• Brian C. Dangerfield, 
• Oleg V. Pavlov, 
• Michael J. Radzicki, 
• I. David Wheat

Creating Conditions for Systems Change in Australia: Leadership Art and Practice

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Liz Skelton, CoFounder & Director, Collaboration for Impact Inequality in Australia is increasing, most notably showing up as persistent locational disadvantage where communities experience little change in issues such as unemployment, poverty, contact with the justice system, homelessness and child maltreatment, despite decades of investment. Locational disadvantage is a complex challenge. Addressing complex problems requires behaviour change to happen concurrently in many parts of the system. The nature of complex problems requires co-creation of solutions, with citizens, leaders and organisations agreeing to a common agenda and then aligning their efforts and resources to achieve measurable, large-scale change. There is growing acceptance that well-designed and effective systemic collaboration and systems leadership is at the heart of initiatives that bring about deep, lasting, large-scale social change. This way of working is counter to most institutions’ cultures, processes and what they incentivise. Without increased capacity and learning, most collaborative efforts revert back to status quo. Liz Skelton from Collaboration for Impact (CFI) will share learnings on the practice and methodology for building capacity in systemic thinking and leadership practice. This approach will be discussed in the presentation of Australian case studies where CFI is providing embedded capacity-building support to communities and multi sector stakeholders from community, government, service providers and business. From international evidence and our work to date, we know that investment needs to be made into building capacity to think and work systemically. There is potential and opportunity to accelerate the rate and quality of learning, capacity building and curation of the thinking, skills and structures required to achieve systems change. CFI is building the foundations for the development and application of Australian systems leadership practice, collaborative change practice and systemic impact measurement.

If you did a podcast, with an old friend, reflecting on your career and last 15 years’ work, what stories would inevitably come up? I was lucky …

Rick Torseth’s 10000 Swamp Leaders podcast with Benjamin P. Taylor