It is only a skateboard with a stenciled Last Supper and like this reference is only pretending to be something indirectly other than what it simply is…
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Swimming Upstream
Swimming upstream…
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Mischievous Mythology
The central fictional narrative theme is that of equal opportunity for all…
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Smart Cities ?
Cities which possess, or indeed – cultivate, an intrinsic and emergent self-organisational homeostasis are not as psychologically alluring to the common-or-garden-variety metropolitan administrator as is the fantasy and mythology of control implicit to digital technology…
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Transformative Problem-Solving
Organisational transformation is not so much about working within the existing rules as it may be about reconfiguring and extending the underlying axioms and rules of organisational structure, information and energy flow such as to generate new rules and new possibilities of organisational structure and system.
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An Inversion of Useful Selves
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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