Systems Thinking
Mike Metcalfe
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.
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.
God as Progress
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Designing a system using the concept of progress over that of supremacy beings. How are you helping in the progress of the world?
ASSIGNMENT: Design an experiemnt you can conduct at work, who or what would oppose it?
ASSIGNMENT: WHEN RESPONDING TO AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION, WHOM DO YOU IMITATE?
ASIGNMENT: WHO IS EXCLUDED FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN YOUR DECISION MAKING.
ASSIGNMENT: WHO DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANISATION IMITATE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.
ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT A STSTEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR ORGANISATION, WHAT ARE YOUR OR ITS FIVE CORE CONCEPTS THAT PROVIDE PURPOSE?
ASSIGNMNET: ARE YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION CONTINUALLY INCREASING YOUR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, HOW MIGHT THIS IMPROVE.
ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A PROBLEM YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RECENTLY IDENTIFY THE SOURCES USED TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS
ASSIGNMENT: DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANISATION, OR SELF, AS A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. WHAT ARE THE HISTORIC AND FUTURE CASHFLOWS INTO AND OUT OF THIS SYSTEM?
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.