Complexity

The following guest contribution of Dr. Stegemann goes back to our joint venture on “Life as an Autopoietic System — Attempt of a Structural Realistic Enlightenment” and complements it by a more detailed description of the present structures in “Coupling and Complexity”. In my previous contribution “Evolutionary Theories in a…

The year was 1776, a man named Adam Smith dropped a banger of a book called “Wealth of Nations” which laid out the foundation of economics as we know it. There were a lot of transformative ideas that were discussed in this seminal work. But the one of our interest…

We are beset by crises which extend beyond our ability to comprehend them, let alone deal with them. We are caught up in processes which engulf our communities, our organisations, even our nations, which proceed at a pace that it is hard to keep up with, and of which noone…

A More Rigorous and Useful Notion of Quality — Check out the NonTrivial Podcast to listen to a high-level discussion on this topic. Contents Quality and Decision Making Challenges in Defining Quality A More Robust Definition (intuition) A Mathematical Treatment Making Decisions Quality and Decision Making Quality is important in our lives. We want to consume and create quality things. On the consumption side…

We should embrace our complexity and depth as remarkable beings. Avoid the urge to show it all. On the first fold of the website, with the first tune of the song, through the first scene of the movie. We bold and highlight, place arrows and scream loud with the hope…

Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) are incredible tools for making sense of complex problems. They use two types of relationships (direct or inverse) to show how an increase or decrease in the value of one variable (a synthesised description of an action) affects other variables, creating a logical cause-effect explanation. The…

Complexity analysis is a wide field of study in the Computer Science world. This field is concerned with understanding the efficiency of algorithms and the resources required to run them. …

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative… to set something into motion. Hannah Arendt Action is the quantum of control energy that is required to change the direction of the social system. Actions take place in subsystems’ public spheres, which can be described as vector…

I was interviewed by Ari-Pekka Skarp, an experienced Agile Coach and organisational consultant, about the role of conflict and negotiation in Agile teams. How might one influence without having formal power? How do we navigate between the plan and what emerges in the course of implementing the plan? How might insights from the complexity sciences help? https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laboratoryofthemind/embed/episodes/5-Conflict-and-Negotiation-at-Work--Chris-Mowles-e210m1n