What, Why & How do we Know ?
Reading Paul Mason’s “Postcapitalism — A Guide to the Future” after earlier mentioning the previews and as is my wont recording some notes around the mid-way point. That is, I don’t really know his conclusions for future action yet, but as previewed it is indeed full of material I already identify with, indeed have been … Continue reading “Atomisation of Markets & Labour @paulmasonnews”
Paul Mason’s book “PostCapitalism” is out this week, but has been previewed in talks and articles. Lots of material I’ve used here. Schumpeter and Kondratiev waves of economic cycles. Freeman and Perez “Techno-Economic-Paradigms” building on Kuhn. Drucker, the guru of management gurus, standing on the shoulders of Parker-Follett. The 5th wave is clearly the information … Continue reading “Post Capitalism @paulmasonnews”
Interesting (2014) blog from Henry Mintzberg on (1980/90’s) Harvard MBA failings, echos my own (1992) MBA Dissertation. A flexible learning organisation needs a rational model like a hole in the head. What goes around comes around. Also put me in mind of (1920/30’s) Mary Parker-Follett.
Joining Up The Dots is the holding name for a side project. In its current form it resides at http://dotsnthreads.ning.com/ It relates to Psybertron as follows: Psybertron is my personal blog, and since it has evolved and continues to evolve as a living thing, I know the posts and pages form a coherent thesis, but … Continue reading “Joining Up The Dots”
BHA posted this Free Arab Press piece (from March) of a young Egyptian lad speaking about what’s wrong with the then current “fascist theocracy” and their “constitution”. Bright and certainly done his listening and reading, to pick up so many issues, and respond eloquently when interviewed, apparently unprompted. Of course the translation is not his, … Continue reading “Smart, but how Wise?”
Hah, two Dilberts in a row. Had to capture this one, because of the watering-down allusion. A classic Mary Parker-Follett point to confuse collaboration and working together with compromise (watering-down), rather than to recognise it as integration. MPF says : “Just so far as people think that the basis of working together is compromise or … Continue reading “Collaboration is not Compromise”
One major reason why “democracy” by popular vote is the worst form of governance (apart from all the others). (Consensus vs tyranny of the majority, etc. Concensus = Parker-Follett integrationism.) Interesting review of David Graeber (Occupy Wall Street) book The Democracy Project by Dave Pollard.
Great interview of Jim Al-Khalili with Caspar Melville of the Rationalist Association. So much better face for the BHA. [An] introduction to the man who has recently become, at least in principle, the most important and high-profile non-believer in Britain. In January Al-Khalili was confirmed as President of the British Humanist Association. He has been [a … Continue reading “Jim’s The Man @BHAhumanists”
Dan Pink’s “Drive” caught on as a best seller in the last couple of years in promoting the concept of “Motivation 3.0”. Of course, the terminology catches the fashion of the internet generation, and good luck if the brief readable book, with its “Toolkit” of ideas does lead to more management catching on in more … Continue reading “Motivation 3.0 – Pink Does Maslow”
An excellent, short (10m), animation of a lecture by Iain McGilchrist. (Hat tip to David Morey on Facebook for the link.) Blogged several references to reading McGilchrist’s “The Master and his Emissary” but never wrote a complete review in one post – It so knocked me out, it led me into other connected readings immediately. … Continue reading “McGilchrist’s Divided Brain”