Whoever you think you are, you are probably (also) actually something quite other than that internal self-representation you hold so close…
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The Blame Game: Guns and Culture
The conditions which exist within a culture which might allow, indicate or in some sense cultivate the psychological and behavioural possibility of and preponderance to mass shootings is complex and not attributable to any single cause…
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Rise of the Simpletons
We may have been exquisitely unlucky in our shared selections from a poverty of all available leadership choices…
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Duplicity, Politics & Regulation
Don’t assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour…
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Uncertainty Principles
“No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment” (…)
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Systemic Insight
There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding…
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Managing Messes
The inelegant facts of a manager’s burden can not be denied…
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Philosophy of Organisation
Much is made of the technology of business and indeed of the business of technology. It seems that a glaring omission in all of our digital adventures and (let’s face it – selfish) strivings is that of anything even vaguely resembling an adequate Philosophy of Organisation…
Even a foundationally exploitative business model finds itself entangled with, and dependent on, its object…
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On Losing Control
Control may be necessary at a personal and social level but is for all that no less a convenient fiction and a contingent, transient illusion than is self…
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Zero-Sum Games
There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
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Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone…
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