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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Galilean Irony
Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…
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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…
Look before you leap…
Just listen…
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Problem-solving Tools
A method for creative problem-solving in which the focus is to some extent removed from the problem under analysis. Displacing the conceptual toolset to intuitively selected texts, papers and articles as a heuristic practice…
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An Ethical Vacuum
Nothing quite extinguishes any mythology of accomplishment and pride in the achievements and sophistication of human civilisation than seeing an utterly isolated homeless person sleeping on a ramshackle mattress and amid their few ignominiously-bagged worldly belongings while early morning commuters rush to work around them…
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