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The guest blog now goes open for the Christmas period. Any previous guest bloggers can use their IDs to post again. Anyone else can send their entry to myself or Dawn for posting. No particular rules or subjects other than normal rules of decency etc. Comment at any stage on anything and lets see what happens.
21 December 2008
From Richard Lalleman
In order to graduate with an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management I was required to submit a research dissertation. This research acknowledges that knowledge management is a cross-disciplinary practice with strong links to organizational learning and complexity theory. Organizational learning is the process that enables an organization to adapt to change and move forward by acquiring new knowledge. Complexity theory is the theory that argues that acquiring new knowledge evolves through the cognition in human organizations. So, to compete and be innovative in a fast-moving environment, organizations should enhance organizational learning by understanding the strength of cognition. Managing this cross-disciplinary practice requires a new form of leadership and therefore the research discovered crucial leadership behavior and generated evidence of how leadership behavior enhances organizational learning.
17 December 2008
GUEST BLOG OPEN
The guest blog is now open to contributions from anyone, including past guests. Details in the header on the front page of the web site
14 December 2008
Until We Meet Again
This guest blog has been a great example of self-organizing process for me. At least at my intrapersonal scale, it has set all three of the (necessary and sufficient) conditions for self-organizing in human systems. The space and time established a container that held my attention and focus. My various experiences and parsing of sense-making differences established the potential energy for change. Finally, the conversations I described and reflection coupled with writing completed the conditions for active self-organizing pattern formation. Container, difference, and exchange forming similarities, differences, and relationships that have meaning across space and time.
13 December 2008
Is Dominance a Difference that Makes a Difference?
I’m curious these days about dominance, its role in human systems, and its function in complex adaptation.
In an intervention today, I was working with a male supervisor of an all-female team. As I watched them interact in a formal, conflict resolution conversation, I became painfully aware of his unconscious—and incredibly powerful—dominant behaviors. I watched the women react and heard them give feedback about everything except those specific signals of power and control.
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