Margaret Wheatley wrote an article titled The Unplanned Organization: Learning from Nature’s Emergent Creativity (1996).
« In my work with large organizations, one of the questions we often ask is, “How would we work differently if we really understood that we are truly self-organizing?” »
Cybernetics
Britannica defines cybernetics as « control theory as it is applied to complex systems. »
« The term cybernetics comes from the ancient Greek word kybernetikos (“good at steering”), referring to the art of the helmsman. »
Continue reading “Cybernetics”Liminal Thinking
Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).
Continue reading “Liminal Thinking”Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity
Tim Sullivan interviewed Michael Mauboussin for a Harvard Business Review article titled Embracing Complexity (September 2011).
Continue reading “Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity”Second-Order Thinking
Shane Parrish wrote an article on Farnam Street titled Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform.
Continue reading “Second-Order Thinking”Daniel Christian Wahl on Chaos and Complexity
Daniel Christian Wahl wrote an article for Resilience.org titled A Brief History of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity (September 12, 2019).
Continue reading “Daniel Christian Wahl on Chaos and Complexity”Augmenting design thinking with a systems thinking approach
Rowan Conway, Jeff Masters, and Jake Thorold wrote a paper for RSA titled From Design Thinking to Systems Change, July 2017, 33-page PDF. Continue reading “Augmenting design thinking with a systems thinking approach”
Russell Ackoff Beyond Continual Improvement
If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… 12-minute video from 1994. Rough transcript follows.
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What made Bill Bernbach great was he was a generalist not a specialist
Dave Trott wrote an article for Campaign titled Generalists Beat Specialists.
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