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…
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…
The OODA loop and the Dynamical System Model
While rummaging through my old notes, I’ve found a document where I make an attempt to understand the OODA loop in the light of my Dynamical Systems Model (DSM). Here…
Agile Scrum as a Dynamical System
Another tidbit from my old notes about the DSM. I think this one may be self-evident: