The Wisdom of the Commons
This is a “Living” Post where I plan to discuss the “Commons” and present examples of this “flat” organizational model, a bottom-up, emergent centuries-old method of organizing communities in the…
On Leadership and Management
One of Gene Bellinger’s systems thinking archetypes on his Mental Model Musings website is about the difference between Leadership and Management. He provides both a structural view and a dynamical…
Organizational Change in Time of Crisis?
In an interesting document, Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework created by Dave Snowden and Alessandro Rancati…
Ashby and Self-Organization
Ashby had a very peculiar relationship with self organizing systems. In his seminal paper “Principles of the self-organizing system” (pgs. 115-117) he writes this: The reason for such a statement…