 | Posted on: | 2007/08/27 |
| Title: | What is Systems Thinking? (Part A) - 4 Basic Concepts | |
| Posted by: | Jed Jones | |
| Source: | http://www.mindecology.com Systems thinking as it is practiced in modern times has been around for over 60 years, but it has only enjoyed a relatively wide audience among non-scientists over the past decade or so. This article explores some of the basic concepts of systems thinking. |
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 | Posted on: | 2007/08/27 |
| Title: | What is Systems Thinking? (Part B) - 5 More Concepts | |
| Posted by: | Jed Jones | |
| This article is a continuation of the article “What is Systems Thinking? (Part A) – 4 Basic Concepts.” Systems thinking has been around for more than 60 years, but it has only enjoyed a relatively wide audience among non-scientists over the past decade or so. | ||
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 | Posted on: | 2007/08/27 |
| Title: | The Art of Dialogue - Making Social Systems Work | |
| Posted by: | Jed Jones | |
| Dialogue has in many ways become a lost art. Most communication in our culture tends to devolve to unilateral assertions, argument or debate. By contrast, dialogue involves the participants co-creating meaning together. Dialogue is an important element of making social systems work. | ||
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 | Posted on: | 2007/07/23 |
| Title: | Evolutionary Systems Design: Way Beyond Two Cultures | |
| Posted by: | Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D. | |
| Source: | http://archive.syntonyquest.or...ltures.pdf Human civilization is in need of new competencies. We must learn how to deal with increasing systemic complexities, rapid societal changes, and design decisions that affect the sustainable evolution of society in nature. Traditionally, we have confronted the challenges of change with an almost blind faith in the ability of science and technology to ‘fix’ the problems that we encounter |
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 | Posted on: | 2007/07/16 |
| Title: | Ethics in the Information Age | |
| Posted by: | Jed C. Jones | |
| Source: | http://www.mindecology.com We currently live in what many call the information age, or what Banathy (1996) refers to as “the atomic age, the space age of cybernetics and high technology: the systems age, the age of complexity” (Banathy, 1996, pp. 90). The information age is characterized in part by the increasing complexity which people in developed nations face. “Complexity is one of the unthought consequences of life in an electronic world” (Severson, 1997, pp. 5). |
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