The Curated Mind: Creative Holism and Applied Knowledge Curation
Managers as Knowledge Curators
Three weeks ago, Geoff Elliott shared several e-books about System Thinking with me. These are really wonderful knowledge resources.
I immediately started reading Mike Jackson’s Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (2003).
The subtitle of the book is Creative Holism for Managers.
What’s Creative Holism?
Part III of the book is called ‘creative holism’ and is concerned with the use of different systems approaches, reflecting alternative holistic perspectives, in combination. The various systems approaches cannot be used all at once but they can be employed creatively, in an informed and ethical way, to promote together the overall improvement of organizational performance. This is the essence of creative holism.
It seems very interesting to me because it reminds me of “Curativity” which is my term for describing “turning pieces into a meaningful whole”.
I wrote a book titled Curativity: The ecological approach to general curation practice and develop a new theory called…
