Tag: adaptive

Adaptive Policy Design

Navigating Complexity: Embracing Indeterminacy, Uncertainty, and Openness in Global Policy In an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world, global challenges such as climate change, economic instability, and social inequality defy simple solutions. Traditional policy approaches often struggle to address these issues effectively because they rely on predictability and control. However, complex systems inherently involve indeterminacy […]

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technology

Education and AI

Post author By G
Post date Apr 2, 2024
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We have stepped across an event horizon in which accelerating rates of technical change and the proliferation of “cognitive” tools have outpaced our personal, professional and/or collective ability to stay on top of the diversity and utility of these rapidly speciating systems. Strategic planning for education (as much as for the broader world) will be […]

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Philosophy

Strategy

Post author By G
Post date Nov 27, 2020
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Most good plans are like the best poetry and prose – they just kind of write themselves. Seek insights into your optimal strategies in life by realising that those better paths and dreams you seek are all already there in front of you, in plain sight and as a matter of logical necessity you just […]

Tags adaptive, complex, insight, optimal, plan, planning, recursion, strategy, system

culture

Diversity in Organisational Leadership

Post author By G
Post date Sep 19, 2020
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Monocultural or ideological hegemony in organisational leadership is a recipe for disaster. As a general observation, when organisational systems fall into overtly biased configurations and power symmetries, it is rarely a consequence of willful misdirection. From the interior surface of a half-mirrored labyrinth of self-validating justification and institutional logic, this kind of monocultural percolation may […]

Tags adaptive, agile, business, corporate, corporation, creativity, diversity, flexible, innovation, leader, leaders, leadership, Organisation, Psychology, resilient, success

heuristics Organisation

Heuristics: Organisational Entropy 003

Post author By G
Post date Jul 6, 2018
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Bureaucracies and administrative hierarchies possess peculiarly mischievous methods of seeking sustainment and self-justification through the endless production of usefully wasteful products and services…

Tags adaptive, bureaucracy, Complexity, efficiency, emergence, entropy, government, hierarchy, inefficiency, inertia, order, Organisation, organization, product, service