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Fun being on @laraghavan's Cyb3rSyn Labs podcast talking about #SocioTechnical systems and #OpenSystemsTheory.
"Tune in to learn how to evolve your management practices and drive better organizational outcomes."
https://www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/from-mechanical-to-sociotechnical
To treat an enterprise as a social system is to treat its people as agents… It means expanding the variety of behaviors available to the parts of the system. And it means refusing to reduce individuals to roles, procedures, or interchangeable units.
https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/the-ethics-of-choice-ackoff-meets-von-foerster/
In today’s post I am exploring the need for ethics in Systems Thinking using the ideas of Heinz von Foerster and Russell Ackoff. Russell Ackoff and Heinz von Foerster came from different traditions…
I once searched for the book ‘Designing Freedom’ on Walmart…
In came this notification soon after 👇🏾
Not just “popular”, apparently it was “really” popular 😲!
Now, why don’t I believe you, Walmart 🤣?
#cybernetics #systemsthinking #leadership #psychology #esoteric
The path from the “𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗢" to the “𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗘𝗦" is the “𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙉𝙊𝙒".
“Corporations are in love with the idea of the strategic plan. They need to pay to figure out where they are going. Yet there is no evidence that strategic planning works—we even seem to have evidence against it.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
- Alvin Toffler
Trond Hjorteland
Harishjosev
Benjamin P. Taylor
