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…
Tag: organization
Order and Decay
Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.
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…
Untangling Webs: Extended Cognition
The role of innovative technological mediation in information storage and processing…
An Art of Farming Emptiness
At a certain point, adaptive growth can be largely abstracted from (a) concrete or material means of wealth-generation…
Perseus’ Shield
No one quite does lateral and innovative thinking like the protagonists of Ancient Greek mythology…
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.
Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…