Anthony Hodgson

Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World (eBook, PDF)

A Search for New Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will help practitioners in any field of change engage more effectively in transformative innovation. The reader is guided through the unfolding of the ideas and practices with a narrative based on the metaphor of search portrayed in the tradition of ox herding, found in Far Eastern traditional consciousness practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429942273
• Artikelnr.: 58079834

Autorenporträt

Anthony Hodgson is currently a trustee and research director of H3Uni - A University for the Third Horizon, a research fellow at the University of Dundee, director of Decision Integrity Limited and a founding member of the International Futures Forum. He has a B.Sc. in chemistry from Imperial College London and PhD in systems science from the University of Hull, Centre for Systems Studies. He has over 30 years of experience as a consultant facilitator in strategy and foresight.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - HEALING OUR FRAGMENTED WORLD
Step 1 Seeking the Ox.
Thinking Differently
A Systems Worldview
CHAPTER 2 - REHABILITATING THE OBSERVER
Step 2 Finding the Tracks.
Paradigm Shift
Thread 1 - Presence of the Observer
Thread 2 - Observation
Intervention and Ethics
Thread 3 - Reflexivity and Reciprocity
Thread 4 - Circularity and Re-entry
Thread 5 - Reflection and Perception
Thread 6 - Transdisciplinarity
Thread 7 - Multi-perspective Dialogic
Weaving the Threads
CHAPTER 3 - REPERCEIVING THE FUTURE
Step 3 - First Glimpse of the Ox.
Changing Boundary Perception
Anticipating the Unpredictable
The Three Horizons
Deepening the Paradigm Shift
CHAPTER 4 - ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS ARE DIFFERENT
Step 4 Catching the Ox.
Foresight as Anticipation
From First-order to Second-order Anticipatory Systems
Taking a Transdisciplinary Viewpoint
The Structure of the Anticipatory Present Moment
CHAPTER 5 CULTIVATING DECISION INTEGRITY
Step 5 Taming the Ox.
The Trap of Rationality
Decision as Learning
The Notion of undecidable questions
The Navigational Implications of Second-Order Decision
Implications for Management and Governance
CHAPTER 6 - THE CO-CREATIVE WAY
Step 6 Riding the Ox Home.
Pattern Thinking
The Gestalt of Pattern Recognition
The Practice of Repatterning
Participative Repatterning
Cognitive Kinetics
Idonics - the Key Tool
Facilitating Participative Repatterning
CHAPTER 7 - TRANSFORMING IN THE NOW
Step 7 - The Ox Out of Sight
the Self Alone.
Perception within the Present Moment
The Four Modes of Anticipation
An Exercise of Anticipatory Consciousness
APM Exercise 1 - The Stretch
APM Exercise 2 - Reflexive Questions
Tapping Our Potential
Getting to Grips with The Now
CHAPTER 8 - NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING
Systems Thinking as Qualitative Practice
References
Index