Systems Thinking

Mike Metcalfe
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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.

Episodes

  1. 08/12/2019

    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?

    23 min

  2. 08/08/2018

    SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION

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

    26 min

  3. 02/26/2018

    SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

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

    45 min

  4. 02/19/2018

    SYSEMS THINKING ABOUT POSTMODERNISM (EVIDENCE)

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

    38 min

  5. 02/13/2018

    SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT DECISION MAKING

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

    34 min

  6. 02/12/2018

    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?

    28 min

  7. 02/08/2018

    SYSTEMS THINING ABOUT CAPITALISM

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

    50 min

  8. 02/03/2018

    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

    49 min

  9. 01/31/2018

    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?

    31 min

  10. 01/20/2018

    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.

    25 min
  • 10 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

3.7
out of 5
6 Ratings

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Mike Metcalfe
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2019
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2017
  • Show Website
    Systems Thinking

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