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culture

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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Ontology

Finite on an Infinite Sequence

It is quite possible to exist in a finite material context while the underlying organisational principles of that context exhibit or express infinite properties…

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Ontology

Abstractions from Reality

Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…

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culture

Duplicity, Politics & Regulation

Don’t assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour…

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Science

Discontinuity as Opportunity

The existence of anomaly and discontinuity may indicate the location of flawed assumptions in scientific theory…

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Philosophy

Topology, Boundary, Possibility

It is a mathematical and logical fact that there is always at least one way to extend a sufficiently sophisticated axiomatic system into new (and potentially useful) reconfigurations…

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culture

Uncertainty Principles

“No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment” (…)

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culture

Systemic Insight

There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding…

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culture

Managing Messes

The inelegant facts of a manager’s burden can not be denied…

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history

Galilean Irony

Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…

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culture

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…

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culture

K-Pop

Even a foundationally exploitative business model finds itself entangled with, and dependent on, its object…