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Philosophy

Untangling Webs: Extended Cognition

The role of innovative technological mediation in information storage and processing…

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business

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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culture

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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culture

Uncertainty Principles

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

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culture

Illusion

It can be of no great surprise to any of us that there has never been any fully complete, self-consistent or comprehensively successful political system…

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culture

Inertia

Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…

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culture

Innovation

If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…

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culture

Systemic Metamorphosis

Our global bureaucracies (on all scales) can not match pace with the accelerating rates of systemic change within which they find themselves…