ORGANISE PUBLIC Reading Group This month we’ll be reading: “Anarchist Cybernetics ” Texts available via The Anarchist Library:https://tinyurl.com/yn23wszd Everyone is welcome to join in, we keep it very relaxed. Listeners welcome. Non-Anarchist welcome! https://discord.gg/CdaCccFJ
https://socialinnovation.org/news/2015/02/20/farewell-to-the-late-brenda-zimmerman/
Complex systems modelling is complex https://twitter.com/EleanorFrajka/status/1683917521735368704?s=20
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
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.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991743a/2023/40/4
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Rajneesh Chowdhury, Amanda Gregory, Miguel Queah
Yasemin Torun, Nuri Gökhan Torlak
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Angela M. Espinosa, Jon Walker, Kartikae Grover, Maya V. Vachkova
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Theresa Arnold, Heiko Kleve, Steffen Roth
Open Access
Christian Hoyer, Indra Gunawan, Carmen Haule Reaiche
Masood Rabieh, Abbas Rezaei Pandari, Zeinab Amiri, Mahdi Esmaeili, Shermineh Mojtabavi Naeini
Open Access
Gabrielle Fletcher, Joshua Waters, Tyson Yunkaporta, Chels Marshall, John Davis, Jack Manning Bancroft
July 17, 2023
link https://thecynefin.co/key-posts/?fbclid=IwAR1jh0zxt1l-QIo80cbgYDrrpvxbm3J_Z0A_IeEMP-UPmb-KYa8t4MJU_KI
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.
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…
https://the-santiago-boys.com/episodes
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 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
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