24 episodes
Systems Thinking Mike Metcalfe
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- Society & Culture
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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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? -
SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION
ASSIGNMENT: Design an experiemnt you can conduct at work, who or what would oppose it?
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SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
ASSIGNMENT: WHEN RESPONDING TO AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION, WHOM DO YOU IMITATE?
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SYSEMS THINKING ABOUT POSTMODERNISM (EVIDENCE)
ASIGNMENT: WHO IS EXCLUDED FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN YOUR DECISION MAKING.
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SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT DECISION MAKING
ASSIGNMENT: WHO DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANISATION IMITATE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.
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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?