Thinking Like a System and Leading with HumilityDate: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. (ET)Speakers: Margaret Wheatley and Mayor Lisa Helps
Webinar | Thinking Like a System and Leading with Humility
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CONFERENCE WORKBOOK for “TEXTS IN CYBERNETIC THEORY” An In-Depth Exploration of the Thought of HUMBERTO R. MATURANA WILLIAM T. POWERS ERNST VON GLASERSFELD A Conference of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS October 18-23, 1988 Felton, California
https://asc-cybernetics.org/publications/Texts_in_Cybernetic_Theory.pdf
pdf dug up by @Kihbernetics who says:
Found this really interesting document from 1988 with texts from #Powers, #Maturana, and #Glasersfeld, but it is missing two pages (30 and 31) in the “outline of control theory” from Powers. If someone has the full text it would be very much appreciated. https://asc-cybernetics.org/publications/Texts_in_Cybernetic_Theory.pdf
Systems convening across boundaries – hosted by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner, Wed 2 Mar 2022 at 16:00 UK time – Collective Leadership Scotland
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Hosted by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner
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Hosting new types of conversations across complex landscapes requires a certain kind of leadership, which is described as systems convening. A systems convener or systems convening team sets up spaces for new types of conversations between people who often live on different sides of a boundary. For example, a geographic, cultural, disciplinary, political, class, social boundary. They spot opportunities for creating new learning spaces and partnership that will bring different and often unlikely people together, and use their legitimacy to convene people to engage in learning across boundaries.
You may be doing this kind of work without any label, unrecognized, or are not not aware that they are doing it, or perhaps you are interested in learning more…
Join Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner in conversation with Janet Whitley and Joan O’Donnell about their recent book on systems convening, where they interviewed 40 systems conveners from around the world, working on diverse issues ranging from improving government transparency to enhancing cancer care.
You can download the book for free here: https://wenger-trayner.com/systems-convening/
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Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization – Frenette and Fribance (2020)
Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization
Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization – OCAD University Open Research Repository
Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization
Frenette, Chantal and Fribance, Robin (2020) Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization. [MRP]
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| Creators: | Frenette, Chantal and Fribance, Robin |
| Abstract: | The practice of organizational foresight is known to have significant benefits when utilized as an input into strategic decision-making and strategic planning. There are, however, recognized limitations with organizations’ abilities to integrate and enact insights derived from foresight. This report aims to understand those limitations by seeking to uncover the barriers and enabling conditions associated with integrating foresight within organizations. The research for this report is grounded in human-centred design and follows a problem finding, problem framing, and solutioning process, and is supported by a social constructivist point of view, which emphasizes knowledge building and knowledge transfer through collaboration and active engagement. In addition to background research, industry interviews with expert foresight practitioners, and a survey of organizational strategists were used to determine the barriers and enabling conditions associated with organizational foresight. Key findings include three principles for successful integration of foresight within organizations. Those three principles are: first, the prioritization of the collective over the individual and the recognition that having individual capacity does not translate into having collective capacity; second, foresight is viewed as an organizational activity, meaning that futures-thinking and foresight practicing brings strategic foresight to life in an organization and makes integration achievable; and third, that the organization sees itself as a system, and in that system all the elements and their interrelationships are used to sustain the thinking and the practice of foresight. Stemming from the three principles, this report concludes by making recommendations for both foresight practitioners and organizations that engage with foresight. The report identifies opportunities for further research related to the recommendations. |
| Date: | 2020 |
http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3159/1/Frenette_Fribance_2020_MDes_SFI_MRP.pdf
Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations | Hayward (2004) – and other Peter Hayward links
Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations
Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations | Semantic Scholar
Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations
- P. Hayward
- Published 1 February 2004
- Business
- Foresight
This paper introduces the Viable Systems Model and in particular the Meta System component of that model, as a framework within which to consider how foresight can be facilitated in organisations. Shows how the System 4 function within the meta system is in a position to facilitate processes that will produce effectiveness and the development of overall system identity. Also shows how adopting another framework for understanding the paradigms or worldviews that operate in organisations can enhance the likelihood that these processes will be successful.
also via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235291881_Facilitating_foresight_Where_the_foresight_function_is_placed_in_organisations
FuturePod EP 2: Deep Inquiry and Dealing with Complexity – Peter Hayward
https://www.futurepod.org/podcast/2018/10/22/episode-10-peter-hayward
Teacher Tom: Creating Metaphors: Interpreting The World Through The Prism Of Ourselves
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/creating-metaphors-interpreting-world.html
Rafael Kaufmann on Twitter: “In 2012, a literally game-changing economics paper was published. I believe can eventually transform the very structure of civilization. (I don’t make these kinds of statements lightly.) Yet it’s still virtually unknown outside of academia.
In 2012, a literally game-changing economics paper was published. I believe can eventually transform the very structure of civilization. (I don’t make these kinds of statements lightly.) Yet it’s still virtually unknown outside of academia.
The (highly technical) paper, “Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent”, is by legendary physicist Freeman Dyson (RIP) and William Press of “Numerical Recipes” fame. Hereon “D&P”.
(1) Rafael Kaufmann (🧠,🌎) on Twitter: “In 2012, a literally game-changing economics paper was published. I believe can eventually transform the very structure of civilization. (I don’t make these kinds of statements lightly.) Yet it’s still virtually unknown outside of academia. 🧵” / Twitter
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Metaphorum Webinar Series – Perez-Rios, and Duck and Searles coming up in May
Coming up:
Prof. Jose Perez-Rios
How to make a fast diagnosis of a complex organization with Organizational Cybernetics? Framework and Tools.
May the 4th, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm (GMT summer time)
Roger Duck and Jane Searles
Designing Freedom Together
May 25th, 2022. 5:00-6:30 pm UK (Summertime)
Metaphorum Webinar Series
Metaphorum Webinar Series – metaphorum
Dr Steve Brewis
y=f(x) … ‘the digital unwrapping of institutional capital’
March 2nd, 2022. 5:00-6:30 pm (UK winter time)
Dr Alan Rayner
Natural inclusion: The receptive simplicity in the heart of complexity and a compassionate, regenerative, and creative community life
April 6th, 2022 5:00-6:30 pm (UK summer time)
The Paradigm of Social Complexity
Volume I: An Alternative Way of Understanding Societies and their Economies
Volume II: Computational Models, Validation, and Applications
Gonzalo Castañeda
With the recent developments in computing technologies and the thriving research scene in Complexity Science, economists and other social scientists have become aware of a more flexible and promising alternative for modelling socioeconomic systems; one that, in contrast with neoclassical economics, advocates for the realism of the assumptions, the importance of context and culture, the heterogeneity of agents (individuals or organisations), and the bounded rationality of individuals who behave and learn in multifaceted ways in uncertain environments. The book synthesises an extensive body of work in the field of social complexity and constructs a unifying framework that allows developing concrete applications to important socioeconomic problems. This one-of-a-kind textbook provides a comprehensive panorama for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want to become familiar with a wide range of issues related…
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Causal emergence is widespread across measures of causation – Comolatti, Hoel (2022)
Causal emergence is widespread across measures of causationRenzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
[2202.01854] Causal emergence is widespread across measures of causation
Causal emergence is widespread across measures of causation
Causal emergence is the theory that macroscales can reduce the noise in causal relationships, leading to stronger causes at the macroscale. First identified using the effective information and later the integrated information in model systems, causal emergence has been analyzed in real data across the sciences since. But is it simply a quirk of these original measures? To answer this question we examined over a dozen popular measures of causation, all independently developed and widely used, and spanning different fields from philosophy to statistics to psychology to genetics. All showed cases of causal emergence. This is because, we prove, measures of causation are based on a small set of related “causal primitives.” This consilience of independently-developed measures of causation shows that macroscale causation is a general fact about causal relationships, is scientifically detectable, and is not a quirk of any particular measure of causation. This finding sets the science of emergence on firmer ground, opening the door for the detection of intrinsic scales of function in complex systems, as well as assisting with scientific modeling and experimental interventions.
Relationships & Implications – by Gene Bellinger
Relationships & ImplicationsMight it be a good idea to know what you’re in the midst of?Gene Bellinger
Relationships & Implications – by Gene Bellinger
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, 1994, signed by B. Nicolescu, E. Morin and L. de Freitas
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, 1994, signed by B. Nicolescu, E. Morin and L. de Freitas
The Charter of Transdisciplinarity | Inters.org
The Charter of Transdisciplinarity
1994
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, 1994, signed by B. Nicolescu, E. Morin and L. de Freitas
The “Charter of Transdisciplinarity” offered here appears as the first appendix to Nicolescu’s Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (2002). Actually, however, the Charter has been adopted at the First World Congress of Transdisciplinarity, held in 1994. In the author’s view, “transdisciplinarity” defines a space for synthesis “across, between and beyond” disciplines. It is worth noting the deep anthropological import of transdisciplinarity (evident throughout the Charter), as well as the values of rigour, opening and tolerance mentioned in Article 14. Nicolescu’s promotion of transdisciplinarity is still in progress at present.
Preamble
Whereas, the present proliferation of academic and nonacademic disciplines is leading to an exponential increase of knowledge which makes a global view of the human being impossible;
Whereas, only a form of intelligence capable of grasping the cosmic dimension of the present conflicts is able to confront the complexity of our world and the present challenge of the spiritual and material self-destruction of the human species;
Whereas, life on earth is seriously threatened by the triumph of a techno-science that obeys only the terrible logic of efficacy of efficacy’s sake;
Whereas, the present rupture between increasingly quantitative knowledge and increasingly impoverished inner identity is leading to the rise of a new brand of obscurantism with incalculable social and personal consequences;
Whereas, an historically unprecedented growth of knowledge is increasing the inequality between those who have and those who do not, thus engendering increasing inequality within and between the different nations of our planet;
Whereas, at the same time, hope is the counterpart of all the afore-mentioned challenges, a hope that this extraordinary development of knowledge could eventually lead to an evolution not unlike the development of primates into human beings;
Therefore, in consideration of all the above, the participants of the First World Congress of Transdisciplinarity (Convento da Arrábida, Portugal, November 2-7, 1994) have adopted the present Charter, which comprises the fundamental principles of the community of transdisciplinary researchers, and constitutes a personal moral commitment, without any legal or institutional constraint, on the part of everyone who signs this Charter .
Article 1:
Any attempt to reduce the human being by formally defining what a human being is and subjecting the human being to reductive analyses within a framework of formal structures, no matter what they are, is incompatible with the transdisciplinary vision.
Article 2:
The recognition of the existence of different levels of reality governed by different types of logic is inherent in the transdisciplinary attitude. Any attempt to reduce reality to a single level governed by a single form of logic does not lie within the scope of Transdisciplinarity.
Article 3:
Transdisciplinarity complements disciplinary approaches. It occasions the emergence of new data and new interactions from out of the encounter between disciplines. It offers us a new vision of nature and reality. Transdisciplinarity does not strive for mastery of several disciplines but aims to open all disciplines to that which they share and to that which lies beyond them.
Article 4:
The keystone of Transdisciplinarity is the semantic and practical unification of the meanings that traverse and lie beyond different disciplines. It presupposes an open-minded rationality by re-examining the concepts of “definition” and “objectivity.” An excess of formalism, rigidity of definitions and a claim to total objectivity, entailing the exclusion of the subject, can only have a life-negating effect.
Article 5:
The transdisciplinary vision is resolutely open insofar as it goes beyond the field of the exact sciences and demands their dialogue and their reconciliation with the humanities and the social sciences as well as with art, literature, poetry and spiritual experience.
Article 6:
In comparison with interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity is multireferential and multidimensional. While taking account of the various approaches to time and history, transdisciplinarity does not exclude a transhistorical horizon.
Article 7:
Transdisciplinarity constitutes neither a new religion, nor a new philosophy, nor a new metaphysics, nor a science of sciences.
Article 8:
The dignity of the human being is of both planetary and cosmic dimensions. The appearance of human beings on Earth is one of the stages in the history of the Universe. The recognition of the Earth as our home is one of the imperatives of transdisciplinarity. Every human being is entitled to a nationality, but as an inhabitant of the Earth is also a transnational being. The acknowledgement by international law of this twofold belonging, to a nation and to the Earth, is one of the goals of transdisciplinary research.
Article 9:
Transdisciplinarity leads to an open attitude towards myths and religions, and also towards those who respect them in a transdisciplinary spirit.
Article 10:
No single culture is privileged over any other culture. The transdisciplinary approach is inherently transcultural.
Article 11:
Authentic education cannot value abstraction over other forms of knowledge. It must teach contextual, concrete and global approaches. Transdisciplinary education revalues the role of intuition, imagination, sensibility and the body in the transmission of knowledge.
Article 12:
The development of a transdisciplinary economy is based on the postulate that the economy must serve the human being and not the reverse.
Article 13:
The transdisciplinary ethic rejects any attitude that refuses dialogue and discussion, regardless of whether the origin of this attitude is ideological, scientistic, religious, economic, political or philosophical. Shared knowledge should lead to a shared understanding based on an absolute respect for the collective and individual Otherness united by our common life on one and the same Earth.
Article 14:
Rigor, opening and tolerance are the fundamental characteristics of the transdisciplinary attitude and vision. Rigor in argument, taking into account of all existing data, is the best defense against possible distortions. Opening involves an acceptance of the unknown, the unexpected and the unpredictable. Tolerance implies acknowledging the right to ideas and truths opposed to our own.
Final Article:
The present Charter of Transdisciplinarity was adopted by the participants of the first World Congress of Transdisciplinarity, with no claim to any authority other than that of their own work and activity.
In accordance with procedures to be agreed upon by transdisciplinary-minded persons of all countries, this Charter is open to the signature of anyone who is interested in promoting progressive national, international and transnational measures to ensure the application of these Articles in everyday life.
Convento de Arrábida, November 6, 1994
Editorial Committee: Lima de Freitas, Edgar Morin, Basarab Nicolescu
B. Nicolescu, Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, translated by K. Claire Voss (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), pp. 147-152.
Systems Research and Behavioral Science – Call for Papers: Special Issue on Systems Thinking for Creative and Flexible Practice
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Systems Thinking for Creative and Flexible Practice
Systems Research and Behavioral Science – Wiley Online Library
Special Issue Call for Papers: Systems East & West 2.0
For more information, please see here.
Submission Deadline: 28 February 2022
Please note all special issue papers must be submitted through the ScholarOne site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/srbs
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Alexander Bogdanov
For more information, please see here.
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2022
Please note all special issue papers must be submitted through the ScholarOne site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/srbs
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Systems Thinking for Creative and Flexible Practice
For more information, please see here.
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2022
Please note all special issue papers must be submitted through the ScholarOne site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/srbs
Bryan Lindsley – ‘online training for solving complex problems’
Haven’t come across this before (the site was set up, I think, in November 2021). Comes across as very ‘sales-y’ and there are certainly some books in the ‘top 35’ that I wouldn’t choose – quite interesting.
35 Greatest Systems Thinking Books of All Time
35 Greatest Systems Thinking Books of All Time
Why isn’t my systems change initiative making an impact?
https://bryanlindsley.com/the-fail-list/
Systems Thinking Training: How to make more impact
- February 15,2022
No-Bullshit Systems Change: all you need in just 10 min
- February 8, 2022
How To Solve Complex Problems
- February 1, 2022
Our frameworks — The Systems Sanctuary
Our Systems Change Frameworks We at The Systems Sanctuary teach and train people who want to create the conditions for systemic change. We use many frameworks and tools to do this. Here are some of the frameworks we have created ourselves (along with a few favorites created by others).
Our frameworks — The Systems Sanctuary
Systems Community of Inquiry 
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