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#organization
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Consciousness without central organization
organization.
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Autopoiesis
Maturana defines the living as autopoietic'. Autopoiesis is a very particular type of organization characterised be a recursive self-production where it is impossible to distinguish the product, producer or production. It is this recursive self-production which constitutes the…
Orthogonality:
To be orthogonal means to interact with the client system in such a way as to not become enmeshed in the existing organization of the system as yet one more constituting component. When this occurs you become part of the problem and hence cannot be part of a solution. Acting…
Composite unities have organization and structure; organization; identity
Composite unities have Organization and Structure. Organization refers to the manner of composition that defines the unity. Organisation refers only to the relations between components that must always be present so that the composite unity will be a unity of a particular type…
Organizational Structure - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Organizational structure
An organization can be structured in many different ways, depending on their objectives. The structure of an organization will determine the modes in which it operates and performs.Organizational structure allows the expressed allocation of responsibilities for different…
Technology Radar July 2014 | Thoughtworks
Conway's law
Conway's Law, that states that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations", keeps appearing in unexpected places. One of the key tenets of the Agile Manifesto is "People over…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Proactive organizations and families
Businesses, community groups, organizations of every kind—including families—can be proactive. They can combine the creativity and resourcefulness of proactive individuals to create a proactive culture within the organization.
A company president withdraws from management
At the final session of a year-long executive development program in Seattle, the president of an oil company came up to me and said, “Stephen, when you pointed out the difference between leadership and management in the second month, I looked at my role as the president of…
IBM's three changeless values
I am always intrigued whenever I go to IBM and watch the training process there. Time and time again, I see the leadership of the organization come into a group and say that IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service. These things…
No involvement, no commitment
When I begin work with companies that have already developed some kind of mission statement, I ask them, “How many of the people here know that you have a mission statement? How many of you know what it contains? How many were involved in creating it? How many really buy into…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Stability without a core
‘There’s a stability and it’s actually like the stability of everything else in this world. It’s like the stability of the ship of Theseus. There’s no core of the ship of Theseus, but there are some parts that last longer than others and there’s an overall structure and if you…
Psuchê as the organisation of living matter
the word ‘soul’ in the New Testament is usually a translation of the Greek word psuchê, which it is generally agreed does not necessarily apply to what Thacker describes as ‘a kind of detachable non-material part of me’. Aristotle, for instance, talks about psuchê and many…
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Who counts as an entrepreneur
The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. That means entrepreneurs are everywhere and the Lean Startup approach can work…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
Communication and organization
Moreover, communication and organization are closely intertwined: communication is not something that just occurs within an organization, because organizations themselves emerge in communication [2]. Taylor, J. Rethinking the Theory of Organizational Communication: How to Read…
What Is A Versioned Article Cited In Medline/pubmed?
Version of record
A Version of Record is: "A fixed version of a journal article that has been made available by any organization that acts as a publisher by formally and exclusively declaring the article "published"." This NISO definition applies to every published article.