I want to make a subtle change to how we can think of organizations as living systems. My purpose is to improve the way of thinking about organizations as extimate symptoms. Essentially, it is us…
Author: philipjboxer
Questioning sovereignty It is tempting to think of a corporation or even an industry as an ecosystem, within which “leadership becomes less about control and more about navigating through complex and diverse business eco-systems.”(Western, 2013)…
The value stairs and the double diamond provide ways of thinking about potential maladaptation. Maladaptation presents opportunities to develop new forms of value creation that involve lifting the strategy ceiling. Pursuing these opportunities involves a…
Question: I need to be clearer about why Zizek is wrong in your terms (and why I should care). His reading of Schelling seems to be entirely through a Lacanian lens – or at least…
Question: Can you please tell me, in as simple terms as possible, the meaning that you have for “the doubling of the double task”. I think I understand you and have visited your blog, but…
The last blog ended on the challenges faced by customers created by ‘market failures’. Market failure arises when providing a product or service to a market-defining aggregation of demand cannot be economically justified on the…
Using the biological metaphors from the 2nd blog, we have approached a structural ecosystem as being like a holobiont, its symbionts being understood as being operationally and managerially independent. This enables us to include the…
If we take up the biological metaphors from the 2nd blog, we must consider how to set aside the vertical cybernetic approach to sovereignty, based on an external authority, in order to approach a structural…
Introduction We return now to the issues raised by the first blog in this series: what is involved in the doubling of the Harold Bridger’s double task (Bridger 1990)?[1] In order to compete effectively in…
In the last blog, I described how the variety of possible 1st order behavioral closures constituted superposed states representing all the possible behaviors able to be realized by a living system. This restricted the possible…