Mnr AM de Lange wrote:
> 1) Being-becoming (structure-process)
> 2) Identity-categoricity (sureness, competancy, detail)
> 3) Associativity-monadicity (network, web, wholeness, holism)
> 4) Connect-beget (fruitful, bijection, effective, incorporation)
> 5) Quantity-limit (measurement, complementary uncertainty)
> 6) Quality-variety (management, heterogenous, fractal, lateral)
> 7) Open-paradigm (freedom, novel, innovative, inclusive)
At, I am happy to read your list and discover that you are an optimist.
Reading through the bracketed words I get a very positive feeling about
your list. Achieving all 7 characteristics would be difficult but
glorious. The only 4 adjectives I do not like (of the 23) are structure,
process, measurement and management.
I also share your belief that complex situations can be clearly understood
using an open-minded mental model and responsing to complex situations in
simple and optimistic ways. Once we have worked out what is the key event
in the happening, we can filter out the busyness, surpress the
hypotheticals and do the business.
Karl Weick's theory of enacted sensemaking comes to mind: "some things
have to be believed to be seen", as does March's foolishness and
playfulness. These theories seem when seen from the rational model to be
foolish, but sometimes the most rational approach is to be irrational!
Roll on with the paradigm shifts! It is only the "Buts!" that keep us on
our butts!
Regards sincerely Simon Buckingham, http://www.unorg.com
unorganization: business not busyness!
--Simon Buckingham <go57@dial.pipex.com>
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