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Getting the right numbers
I commented on https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/rethinking-efficiency-the-human-element-in-systems-thinking Mr. Ackoff was an optimist. When I studied Biophysics, we had lectures on photosynthesis (very interesting, by the way, plants using quantum mechanical effects). A fellow student ask our professor: “how efficient is the photosynthesis?”. Professor … Continue reading
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Who’s us?
Robert Reich asked “who are we?” is a substack about the election results in the US. Here are are ome of my notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/who-are-we-anyway?r=p0rqa&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=75987848 Implications for facilitating groups
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Tagged facilitation, identity, paradox, substack, us and them
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De waarde is niet wat het kost en is niet de prijs.
Hmm, het is toch een lang verhaal geworden. Het achterliggende probleem bij belastingheffing en vermogensongelijkheid heeft te maken met drie verschillende vormen van gebruik van eenheden. Geld – in de vorm van “euro” – gebruiken we als concreet ruilmiddel, abstracte … Continue reading
This is another idea
I made a contribution on my substack that might interest you. https://mindatwork.substack.com/p/this-is-not-an-idea Implications for facilitation Go slow – research or investigate the dominant metaphor, the assumptions. Look for the condition to intervene on. Never defend your position. Ask questions – … Continue reading
Narrational thinking
commenting on https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-gops-integrity-death-cycle/ Actually, the cyclical nature of nature is …. life –> death –> life –> death —> … You cannot have the one without the other AND they seem to deny each other. It’s the paradox of life: … Continue reading
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Tagged facilitation, GOP, paradox, perceprion, power, scarcity
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OMAF
For the full text, see: https://mindatwork.substack.com/p/omaf-an-harmful-untruth It’s not a question about truth, but about believes. Believe it or not, we use a kind of Baysian Logic in establishing what works in behaviour. Your body learned to make “educated guesses” on … Continue reading
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Realizing reality
One invents reality. Inventing, in terms of McWhinney’s model, combines inducing with realizing (red –inducing –> yellow –realizing –> red). We use an idea or concept like reality to explain “what works”. The question “does reality really exists?” while referring … Continue reading
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Simply facilitating complexity
I was just this morning writing to a friend that natural structures structure themselves. Then I ran into a piece about design not using complexity theory. I think these issues are related. Facilitating complexity comes naturally to me, because I … Continue reading
The various laws of requirement
You may know, I’m a big fan of the so called “Ashby’s law“, not as a true law, an algorithm, but as “rule of thumb”, an heuristic. This law should be used to understand variety creation – as do biological … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashby, Communication, laws, paradoxes of belonging, shannon, Variety
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