Systems Thinking

Criticising a system seems naive without suggesting a better one. This podcast series is about how to design useful human systems, including enterprises, communities, commercial businesses, government policy and your own life. It explains and applies the Pragmatists stream of Systems Thinking to assist with this design work. So, it critiques proposed systems using explicit classic concepts like consequences, anti fragile, evolution and contradiction.

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Episodes

God as Progress

Designing a system using the concept of progress over that of supremacy beings. How are you helping in the progress of the world?

Aug 12, 2019•23 min

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION

ASSIGNMENT: Design an experiemnt you can conduct at work, who or what would oppose it?

Aug 08, 2018•26 min

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

ASSIGNMENT: WHEN RESPONDING TO AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION, WHOM DO YOU IMITATE?

Feb 26, 2018•45 min

SYSEMS THINKING ABOUT POSTMODERNISM (EVIDENCE)

ASIGNMENT: WHO IS EXCLUDED FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN YOUR DECISION MAKING.

Feb 19, 2018•38 min

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT DECISION MAKING

ASSIGNMENT: WHO DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANISATION IMITATE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.

Feb 13, 2018•34 min

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT PURPOSE

ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT A STSTEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR ORGANISATION, WHAT ARE YOUR OR ITS FIVE CORE CONCEPTS THAT PROVIDE PURPOSE?

Feb 12, 2018•28 min

SYSTEMS THINING ABOUT CAPITALISM

ASSIGNMNET: ARE YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION CONTINUALLY INCREASING YOUR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, HOW MIGHT THIS IMPROVE.

Feb 08, 2018•50 min

NETWORKS AS PROBLEM SOLVING SYSTEMS

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A PROBLEM YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RECENTLY IDENTIFY THE SOURCES USED TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS

Feb 03, 2018•49 min

SYSTEMS AS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

ASSIGNMENT: DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANISATION, OR SELF, AS A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. WHAT ARE THE HISTORIC AND FUTURE CASHFLOWS INTO AND OUT OF THIS SYSTEM?

Jan 31, 2018•31 min

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT NEGOTIATION

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A RECENT NEGOTIATION IN YOUR ORGANISATION OR IN YOUR OWN LIFE. WHAT WERE THE CONCEPTS IN TENSION, WAS IT CREATIVE, WAS THERE COOPERATION, COULD YOU GO BACK AND RE NEGOTIATE WITH THE SAME PEOPLE WITH NO RESIDUE BAD FEELINGS. HOW MIGHT THINGS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED.

Jan 20, 2018•25 min

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