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Wondering About
Here is the place where EdgeAdapters listed complexity
concepts they would like to learn more about and
use more effectively.
- Uncovering and working with paradox and tension seems
to be a set of skills many of us lack. Prigogine, in his book The
End of Certainty, makes a very interesting analysis which indicates
that if indeed stable dynamical systems without instabilities (tensions
and paradoxes) were the key driving forces in our world, humans would
not exist. So it seems that it isn't just managers who are lacking
in skills in this arena or uncomfortable with this concept. Western
philosophy, religion, science and management have all suffered from
the belief that instability is bad rather than the life force. But
students of life (ie. doctors and nurses) intuitively know this already.
So maybe talking to them about their observations in health and illness
is a key means for accessing what we already"know" - that stability
is not an evolutionary force or a creative energy.
- How to make decisions on which organizational "seedlings"
to allow grow or to weed out. The trick is when to make the decision
- waiting too long may allow a bad idea to take root, but acting too
fast may kill off a promising new hybrid. Should we not have more
confidence that if the underlying purposes and values of the organization
are firmly rooted these decisions will be made environmentally, rather
than having some controlling authority. Even though this sounds good,
what if the and values need to evolve because they are killing off
great new emergent advances?
Worth pursuing - The point made above that physicians
and nurses "know" about the value of instability
for life. Is tapping into this one way to stimulate the creation of
our critical mass?
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