Systems Thinking

Aug 11 2019 138

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Criticising a system seems naive without suggesting a better one. This podcast series is about how to design useful human systems, including enterprises, communities, commercial businesses, government policy and your own life. It explains and applies the Pragmatists stream of Systems Thinking to assist with this design work. So, it critiques proposed systems using explicit classic concepts like consequences, anti fragile, evolution and contradiction.

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God as Progress

Aug 11 2019 22 mins

Designing a system using the concept of progress over that of supremacy beings. How are you helping in the progress of the world?

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION

Aug 07 2018 26 mins

ASSIGNMENT: Design an experiemnt you can conduct at work, who or what would oppose it?

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Feb 25 2018 44 mins

ASSIGNMENT: WHEN RESPONDING TO AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION, WHOM DO YOU IMITATE?

SYSEMS THINKING ABOUT POSTMODERNISM (EVIDENCE)

Feb 18 2018 38 mins

ASIGNMENT: WHO IS EXCLUDED FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN YOUR DECISION MAKING.

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT DECISION MAKING

Feb 12 2018 33 mins

ASSIGNMENT: WHO DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANISATION IMITATE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT PURPOSE

Feb 11 2018 28 mins

ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT A STSTEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR ORGANISATION, WHAT ARE YOUR OR ITS FIVE CORE CONCEPTS THAT PROVIDE PURPOSE?

SYSTEMS THINING ABOUT CAPITALISM

Feb 07 2018 49 mins

ASSIGNMNET: ARE YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION CONTINUALLY INCREASING YOUR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, HOW MIGHT THIS IMPROVE.

NETWORKS AS PROBLEM SOLVING SYSTEMS

Feb 02 2018 49 mins

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A PROBLEM YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RECENTLY IDENTIFY THE SOURCES USED TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS

SYSTEMS AS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Jan 30 2018 31 mins

ASSIGNMENT: DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANISATION, OR SELF, AS A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. WHAT ARE THE HISTORIC AND FUTURE CASHFLOWS INTO AND OUT OF THIS SYSTEM?

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT NEGOTIATION

Jan 19 2018 25 mins

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A RECENT NEGOTIATION IN YOUR ORGANISATION OR IN YOUR OWN LIFE. WHAT WERE THE CONCEPTS IN TENSION, WAS IT CREATIVE, WAS THERE COOPERATION, COULD YOU GO BACK AND RE NEGOTIATE WITH THE SAME PEOPLE WITH NO RESIDUE BAD FEELINGS. HOW MIGHT THINGS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED.