The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems – ECOSYSTEMATIC
An imbalance in power relations among stakeholders affected by wicked problems is a barrier to problem resolution. Power dynamics permeate societal systems; its structures, cultural norms, material artifacts and technologies etc;
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Therefore understanding power dynamics and mapping the ways in which they manifest in a system (wicked problem) and among stakeholder groups is crucial to problem resolution.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Both good news and bad news reinforcing loops accelerate so quickly that they often take people by surprise. A French school-children’s jingle illustrates the process. First there is just one lily pad in a corner of a pond. But every day the number of lily pads doubles. It takes thirty days to fill the pond, but for the first twenty-eight days, no
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
First, our modern world has more interconnected systems than before. So we encounter these systems with greater frequency and, most likely, with greater consequence. Second, we still attempt to cure problems in complex systems with a naïve understanding of cause and effect.
Michael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Any view of financial systems must recognize that they are ecosystems, linking agents, stocks, and flows. Just as an ecosystem ecologist is focused on the cycling of crucial elements like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, so too might a “financial ecologist” focus on the sustainable cycling of crucial elements like capital, labor, and financial inn
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Three patterns exist side by side. The reliance on the short-term fix grows stronger, while efforts to fundamentally correct the real problem grow weaker, and the problem symptom alternately improves and deteriorates…
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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
New strategies, new things are coming and going and striving to survive and do well in a situation they mutually create. We can describe this algorithmically, but not easily by equations, not just because the situation is complicated to track but because new behaviors and categories of behavior are not easily captured by equations.