We may have been exquisitely unlucky in our shared selections from a poverty of all available leadership choices…
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…
Abstractions from Reality
Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…
Duplicity, Politics & Regulation
Don’t assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour…
Discontinuity as Opportunity
The existence of anomaly and discontinuity may indicate the location of flawed assumptions in scientific theory…
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…
Uncertainty Principles
“No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment” (…)
Systemic Insight
There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding…
Managing Messes
The inelegant facts of a manager’s burden can not be denied…
Galilean Irony
Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…
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…