Complex emergent natural phenomena (of which human organisations are a logical sub-set) possess developmental biases towards evolutionary selection mechanisms favouring systemic continuity…
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Organisational systems are as subject to the exigencies of thermodynamics as are any other material systems…
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Organisational Ecologies
Extracting psychological self-interest from the naked fact of seeking existential continuity is an entangled Gordian Knot.
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Open Minds and Closed Organisations
Human beings may never be clever enough to harness and benefit from the symmetries of information and energy flows as already exist in the natural world…
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Order and Decay
Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.
Do organisations breed misanthropy and functional inefficiency or do they actually breed *through* these narrow-band entropies ?
Buddhist psychology almost exclusively locates the preponderance of human misery in this world to the many and diverse methods by which we attach ourselves to things in the world, to objects, possessions, people and ideas…
Some organisational principles do not scale linearly…
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Untangling Webs: Extended Cognition
The role of innovative technological mediation in information storage and processing…
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An Art of Farming Emptiness
At a certain point, adaptive growth can be largely abstracted from (a) concrete or material means of wealth-generation…
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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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Uncertainty Principles
“No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment” (…)
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