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On Diversity, Resilience and the Growth of Anxiety
Society can become more resilient from environmental changes if its elements can respond better to its perturbations. The ability to listen to…
Coalitions and Change in our Systems
We also explored the role of listening with attention from within so we can identify the cracks in the system that might lead to change. The cracks would be the people and places where we invest our energy….
More Poetic Communications
In this type of systems, not knowing is the rule. Instead of applying known models and repetitions, the work is to listen for the way things connect differently and name it. Poetic communications is used here in the sense of using language to author the world, of “innovating” by naming the unknown….
Poetic Communications
Poetic communications are not part of the subsystems of society. They do not solve business problems or issues of law; they do not grant you a diploma either. Although they are still bound by the way we communicate, they hold less constraints in the directions they can unfold….
The Stupid Company or the Myth of Collective Intelligence?
People in organisations will always learn, but the only way learning can influence structures and communications in designed systems is if we hold spaces to re-design and co-design….
On How Society Loves to Predict, but It’s All Invented
It is very easy to get caught in the idea that society can predict things that will happen. Stories we tell in…
Ecological Communication | Niklas Luhmann
I read Luhmann’s Ecological Communication following my inquiry on the importance of building trust for a sustainable society. Searching the Web I…
Convergence and Contrast in Dialogue Conversations
From photography to music to dance, contrast seems to be a key component of the arts. When this was pointed out to…
Harvesting Online as a Collective Learning Practice
Another way of getting connected is to read the individual contributions of like minded people aggregated in one place. Many people have been selecting their own content by subscribing to feeds on Google Reader, for example, or using platforms to automatically or manually share articles, tweets and the like….
Do Not Expand Your View. Instead, Pay Attention.
One of the books I enjoyed reading as a kid was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. This was partly because of the…