A discussion comment from a LinkedIn conversation on Systems Thinking World to clarify what “steering” means for complex systems and in response to a question (paraphrased). So can you describe how “small changes at a location in a system alters the direction of the whole,” discussing the theory, certainly, but also examples because this dense country boy sometimes … Continue reading Steering for the organizational Lagrange Point
Excerpted from intro to JLH website homepage. JLH 6/29/12 I’ve written several short “what this site is about” essays, you’ll find in various places elsewhere. They all attempt to introduce a way to begin studying the eventful lives of the individually organized and behaving systems of nature, our many kinds of animated companions with which … Continue reading Emotionally proof reading your logical models…
Peter Heffron had liked my idea for how our economy could imitate the natural means for a growth system to transform to become stable, in explaining my comment that “I think removing the growth orientation from “sustainability” might be a lot easier than adding its “getting the parts to work together” aspect into “degrowth” (further … Continue reading a Female, and a Male form of physics?
The BIG news is that “the commons“ got a lot of fresh attention in the 2012 RioDialogues, from the UN Commons Action Group site and its Facebook page, supporting proposals that Helene Finidori (1) and I submitted (2,3) for: “New institutions.. for commons-based economic models” Helene’s proposal (1) won the voting for the“Sustainable Development as an Answer … Continue reading News of the Commons
Using a new paradigm of biomimicry to create a global self-regulating financial commons. This proposal was submitted to the Rio+20 Dialogues for comment and voting. See “News of the Commons” for introductions to the vision and the systems thinking needed. It’s part of the foundation of collaborative free markets needed for the health of the competitive free … Continue reading “The next big challenge” a biomimicry for a self-regulating financial commons
I’ve found that it eventually pays, to let my moral dilemmas hurt my feelings if I actually want to know the answer. I don’t ever dwell on emotional pain. I just know I can learn from it if I attentively listen to what it’s about. Our world is spiraling out of control, yet again, as … Continue reading A circle ever more broken
There are quite a number of “systems of systems thinking”, that I broadly describe the history of in my entry in the Encyclopedia of the Earth on Complex Systems. Every science made up its own, for example, which are sometimes linked and sometimes not really linked much at all. The introduction to the “Natural Systems Theory” behind … Continue reading General intro: Natural Systems & Synapse9
The collection of “Hacks” for the Long Term Capitalism Challenge offered byHarvard Business Review, McKinsey and MIX, for the M-Prize for Management Innovation now has this proposal from me… Please leave comments for reviewers on The official competition entry at the MIX site (here too is fine for conversation). If you request information I’ll respond as I … Continue reading Adopt natural system principles to keep economies profitable at their limits
John Fullerton in “The Double-Edged Sword of Resilience” on the Capital Institute blog, reported on separate research by Bill Rees and Donella Meadows, on immune resistant disease as examples of how resilience can be a mortal threat. My comment was: __________ These are good examples, but they aren’t the ones that first popped into mind. The … Continue reading Resilience… for the most wrong things
Over the years I’ve made various attempts to give people a good set of principles for introducing my way of observing and understanding the workings of natural environmental systems (1). 9 steps of discovery A suggestion that I try again resulted in the following page, describing 9 steps of discovery. They’re to be made meaningful to … Continue reading Steps to a natural systems view