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Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching – Arnold, Kleve, Roth (2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.2962?fbclid=IwAR2Px5J8OYxXpsorQkNxfn6fsPfd6hoT7xsDSsWqGCbo7vYl8pwniPGGR-c
Theresa Arnold, Heiko Kleve, Steffen Roth
First published: 25 May 2023
https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2962
Abstract
Business family members face challenges related to exposure to diverse role expectations and systems logics, the management of which often results in situations of high complexity, dilemmas, and paradoxes. To address these issues, in this paper we combine key insights from social systems theory with systemic family coaching tools such as “internal maps,” the “expectation carrousel,” and the “tetralemma.” In drawing on an illustrative example from a family business succession planning context, we demonstrate how systemic approaches may help business family members to (a) creatively reflect on both the personal and interpersonal expectations they are confronted with and (b) manage issues of decision-making in dilemmatic or paradoxical situations.
Systems Research and Behavioural Science – Special Issue:Systems thinking for creative and flexible practice – ed. Chowdhury (2023)
- Volume 40, Issue 4
- Special Issue:Systems thinking for creative and flexible practice
- Pages: 611-760July/August 2023Issue Edited by: Rajneesh Chowdhury
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991743a/2023/40/4
ISSUE INFORMATION
Free Access
Issue Information
- Pages: 611-612
- First Published: 24 July 2023
EDITORIAL
Systems thinking for creative and flexible practice
- Pages: 613-616
- First Published: 24 July 2023
RESEARCH PAPER
Critical systems practice 4: Check—Evaluating and reflecting on a multimethodological intervention
- Pages: 617-632
- First Published: 10 October 2022
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the editor
- Pages: 633-635
- First Published: 05 January 2023
In search of a golden mean for systemic evaluation: A response to Michael Quinn Patton
- Pages: 636-638
- First Published: 10 February 2023
RESEARCH PAPERS
The challenge of inclusivity, capability and change in complex, multi-stakeholder problem situations—Practical insight from the application of participative systems methods, models and facilitation within an organisational setting
- Pages: 639-653
- First Published: 25 April 2023
Open Access
Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility
Rajneesh Chowdhury, Amanda Gregory, Miguel Queah
- Pages: 654-670
- First Published: 18 May 2023
An adaptive use of Soft Systems Methodology with Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing, Critical Systems Heuristics and Interactive Planning in a women’s prison
Yasemin Torun, Nuri Gökhan Torlak
- Pages: 671-688
- First Published: 08 September 2022
Open Access
The viability and sustainability approach to support organisational resilience: Learning in a recent case study in the health sector
Angela M. Espinosa, Jon Walker, Kartikae Grover, Maya V. Vachkova
- Pages: 689-700
- First Published: 27 April 2023
The systems approach of strategic roadmapping: Framing challenges and contributions whilst flexing to changing conditions and circumstances
- Pages: 701-712
- First Published: 25 April 2023
Open Access
Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching
Theresa Arnold, Heiko Kleve, Steffen Roth
- Pages: 713-722
- First Published: 25 May 2023
Open Access
Exploring the relationships between Industry 4.0 implementation factors through systems thinking and network analysis
Christian Hoyer, Indra Gunawan, Carmen Haule Reaiche
- Pages: 723-739
- First Published: 10 April 2023
The organizational systems thinking excellence model (OSTEM)
Masood Rabieh, Abbas Rezaei Pandari, Zeinab Amiri, Mahdi Esmaeili, Shermineh Mojtabavi Naeini
- Pages: 740-756
- First Published: 08 February 2023
RESEARCH NOTE
Open Access
Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry
Gabrielle Fletcher, Joshua Waters, Tyson Yunkaporta, Chels Marshall, John Davis, Jack Manning Bancroft
- Pages: 757-760
- First Published: 22 January 2023
Key posts? Dave Snowden reference links
July 17, 2023
link https://thecynefin.co/key-posts/?fbclid=IwAR1jh0zxt1l-QIo80cbgYDrrpvxbm3J_Z0A_IeEMP-UPmb-KYa8t4MJU_KI
Participatory Innovation Praxis: A trans-disciplinary method for conducting high-complexity social transformations – del Valle (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2023.100004
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949697723000048
Why is humanity heading for self-destruction and planetary devastation? Why are so many problems –climate crisis, hunger, migrations, organized crime, inequality, desertification, pollution, etc.– out of control and getting worse? These high-complexity problems involve large numbers of actors, conflicts, issues, interpretations and cultures, and require pulling together knowledge from widely different sources to be possibly governed. Yet the master paradigm that has ruled humanity over the last four centuries –i.e., Cartesian, analytical or simplifying thinking– makes this practically impossible because of its principles of separation, reduction and abstraction that are embodied in today’s scientific disciplines. The Participatory Innovation (PI) Praxis offers a viable alternative, within the emerging post-Cartesian paradigm of systems thinking or complex thinking. PI’s theory comes from key systems thinkers: Ackoff, Ashby, Beer, Ozbekhan, Morin and Schein; its empirical grounds, from experiences in many fields and places, including hundreds of innovations. PI makes high-complexity challenges understandable and governable through methodical design and implementation of consensus social-cultural transformations, by using the astounding capacities of human minds and natural language to process complex meanings. This article illustrates the method with 25-year impacts of two cases in Chile. It closes by discussing implications for policy and for cultural and civilizational matters.
Gordon Brander twitter comment
Freakonomics Radio episode 546 – Are E.S.G. Investors Actually Helping the Environment?
Probably not. The economist Kelly Shue argues that E.S.G. investing just gives more money to firms that are already green while depriving polluting firms of the financing they need to get greener. But she has a solution.
Keep in mind this is from Stephen J Dubner, the man who published Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (in multiple parts) on the same channel – https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-the-koch-brothers-part-1/
However, this is worthy of consideration as an example of system thinking, I believe…
The Santiago Boys nine-episode podcast season – Yevgeny Morozov on Project Cybersyn
https://the-santiago-boys.com/episodes
How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile
Stafford Beer pioneered ‘cybernetic management principles’ but Pinochet’s coup saw technology turned to nefarious ends
Sat 22 Jul 2023 11.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/stafford-beer-chile-allende-technology-cybernetics
A closed loop – the DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image – Davies (2014), Aeon
A murmuration of starlings in southern Israel. Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters
Jamie Daviesis professor of experimental anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book is Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself (2014).
Edited byEd Lake
https://aeon.co/essays/the-feedback-loop-is-a-better-symbol-of-life-than-the-helix
Three jobs: Systems Researcher/Practitioner – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 17th July 2023
Salary
£37,295 – £44,724
National: £37,295 – £41,425, London: £40,262 – £44,724. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
DEFRA – CSA – Chief Scientific Adviser – Government Science & Engineering
Type of role
Analytical
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
Location
Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=cGFnZWNsYXNzPUpvYnMmc2VhcmNocGFnZT0xJnBhZ2VhY3Rpb249dmlld3ZhY2J5am9ibGlzdCZzZWFyY2hzb3J0PW9wZW5pbmcmdXNlcnNlYXJjaGNvbnRleHQ9Mzk5NjU5NTgmam9ibGlzdF92aWV3X3ZhYz0xODYzMTQ3Jm93bmVyPTUwNzAwMDAmb3duZXJ0eXBlPWZhaXImcmVxc2lnPTE2ODczNTcyMTAtNTlmZTQzNmQ1NzYwNjY0OTY3ZmJiNWRiMjI4ZTVhMTEyN2I3YmM1MA==
Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: Evidence from European cities – Garcia-López et al, 2020
Authors :
- Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López(Department of Applied Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain)
- Ilias Pasidis(Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), Universidad de Barcelona 08034, Barcelona, Spain)
- Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal(Department of Economics, Universidad de Barcelona 08034, Barcelona, Spain)
https://ideas.repec.org/p/uab/wprdea/wpdea2011.html
Influential Thinkers: Donella Meadows – Geoff Marlow
A pioneer whose insights help inform the creation of future-fit cultures
16 JUL 2023
https://geoffmarlow.substack.com/p/influential-thinkers-donella-meadows
The Jim Rutt Show EP 191 Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence
https://www.jimruttshow.com/alicia-juarrero/
Jim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new book Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. They discuss Aristotle’s four causes, applying them to complex dynamical systems, the overfocus on efficient cause, naive Newtonianism, nothing-but-ism, reconceptualizing causality in terms of constraints, mereology, constraint regimes, ascribing causal powers to emergent properties, the roots of panpsychism, Searle’s comparison of consciousness with digestion, kinds of constraints, the Dysons’ notion of analog control, why analog is more efficient, identity as a set of interdependent constraints, surface vs deep dyslexia & early neural nets, the work of Geoffrey Hinton, the species competitive exclusion principle, cardinality vs ordinality, the social evolution of cassava, Rayleigh-Benard convection, dissipative systems, Alicia’s disagreement with Michael Polanyi, the architecture of the circulatory system, scaffolding, top-down causality, many-to-one transitions, degeneracy, pluripotentiality, the ship of Theseus, 4E cognitive science, and much more.
- Episode Transcript
- Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, by Alicia Juarrero
- Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System, by Alicia Juarrero
- “Downward Causation: Polanyi and Prigogine,” by Alicia Juarrero
- “Why Western Science and Philosophy Cannot Deal with the Relations Between Parts and Wholes,” by Alicia Juarrero
- JRS EP105 – Christof Koch on Consciousness
- JRS Currents 100: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin on Time as an Object
Alicia Juarrero, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College (MD), is the author of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT 1999) and co-editor of Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from North and South (ISCE Publishing, 2007), and Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008).
My comment:
A very good episode, once again underlining the continuity across systems | cybernetics | complexity – but/and also sometimes lacunae of referencing. No references to Maturana and Varela‽ I was kinda shouting ‘structural coupling! structural coupling!’ in my head at times!
And you literally talked about ‘circular causality’ without a reference to cybernetics at all? It strikes me as really odd – a loss of connection across the field. In any case, it’s clear that Juarrero is a great systems thinker and cybernetician ‘as well as’ complexity thinker.
Systems Thinking – a different way of looking at the work – Lightning Talk 2021 version – Sally Bean
Uploaded Oct. 9, 2022
Science
A talk that attempts to explain the essence of systems thinking using a bicycle.
sallybean https://www.slideshare.net/sallybean/systems-thinking-lightning-talk-2021-versionpdf?from_action=follow
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