MSc Systems Thinking – Open Thinkering

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2024

11th September - TB871: Combining five systems approaches
23rd August - TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
23rd August - TB871: The ‘eternal triangle’ of systemic triangulation in CSH
23rd August - TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH
21st August - TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH
21st August - TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries
16th August - TB871: Critical System Heuristics
14th August - TB871: “Anything said is said by an observer”: Humberto Maturana’s impact on Systems Thinking
14th August - TB871: “Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer”: the life and work of Heinz von Foerster
14th August - TB871: “The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea”: the ethical and philosophical legacy of C. West Churchman
10th August - TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
8th August - TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
8th August - TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
8th August - TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM)
27th July - TB871: Conceptualising myself through metaphor
27th July - TB871: Navigating communication under pressure: Transactional Analysis, DISC, and the FONT framework
26th July - TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking
26th July - TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking
26th July - TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window)
25th July - TB871: Supporting the development of others
25th July - TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles
25th July - TB871: Personality and causal responsibility
25th July - TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN
23rd July - TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones)
23rd July - TB871: Managing personality differences in teams (Belbin & Six Thinking Hats)
23rd July - TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN)
21st July - TB871: Block 4 Tools stream references
19th July - Managing change with systems thinking in practice (PDF)
17th July - TB871: Cognitive mapping, causal-loop diagramming, and a refreshing use of SODA
13th July - TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
13th July - TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
13th July - TB871: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development
12th July - TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
12th July - TB871: Block 3 People stream references
12th July - TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
10th July - TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases
10th July - TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases
10th July - TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors
10th July - TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
10th July - TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking
10th July - TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references
5th July - TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of interest
4th July - TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest
3rd July - TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5)
3rd July - TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model (System 4)
3rd July - TB871: Managing the ‘inside and now’ of the Viable System Model (System 3)
3rd July - TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2)
27th June - Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM)
26th June - TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM
26th June - TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of interest (System 1)
26th June - TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM
21st June - TB871: Managing variety using amplifiers and attenuators
21st June - TB871: Systems in my situation of interest
19th June - TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system
19th June - TB871: Only variety can absorb variety
19th June - TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking
16th June - TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model
16th June - TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown
14th June - TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM)
14th June - TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM)
7th June - TB871: Block 2 People stream references
7th June - TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
7th June - TB871: Framing and reframing
7th June - TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
7th June - TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
7th June - TB871: Dead metaphors
7th June - TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
5th June - TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
5th June - TB871: Primary metaphors
5th June - TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references
5th June - TB871: Area of practice diagram
31st May - TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons
31st May - TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race
31st May - TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals
31st May - TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth
31st May - TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden
29th May - TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail
29th May - TB871: Re-mapping my situation of interest
26th May - TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
26th May - TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
26th May - TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
26th May - TB871: Block 1 People stream references
22nd May - TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
22nd May - TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
22nd May - TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet
22nd May - TB871: Turtles all the way down
19th May - TB871: Engaging with unknowns
19th May - TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references
18th May - TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making strategy
18th May - TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design
17th May - TB871: Toast and wicked problems
17th May - TB871: Nominating an area of practice
17th May - TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic
11th May - TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking
11th May - TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches
11th May - TB871: Systems practice competencies
10th May - TB871: What is a ‘strategy’?
10th May - TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
3rd May - TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
1st May - TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
1st May - TB871: Different uses of the words ‘Strategy’ and ‘System’
1st May - TB871: Starting my next MSc module
5th April - TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA
22nd March - TB872: Advantages and disadvantages of CSLS
20th March - TB872: Core reading for my EMA
13th March - TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor
8th March - TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA
8th March - TB872: Bawden and transforming worldviews
6th March - TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
6th March - TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
1st March - TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs
28th February - TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems
28th February - TB872: Ubuntu and Pratītyasamutpāda
25th February - TB872: Wenger-Trayner and communities of practice
25th February - TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning
23rd February - TB872: MCB and ‘being what we are willing to learn’
23rd February - TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems
17th February - TB872: Schön’s swamp and ‘ideas in good currency’
14th February - TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
31st January - TB872: Authenticity and accountability
31st January - TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice
29th January - TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
29th January - TB872: Different types of change
26th January - TB872: Systemic inquiry and the ‘design turn’
26th January - TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
24th January - TB872: Snappy Systems
24th January - TB872: The main systemic inﬂuences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
22nd January - TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing)
19th January - TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising)
18th January - TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging)
17th January - TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being)
15th January - TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing
12th January - TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling
12th January - TB872: Four advantages of systems practice
12th January - TB872: Places to intervene in a system
10th January - TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic
10th January - TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice
5th January - TB872: Revisiting my learning contract
5th January - TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1)
5th January - TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2)
4th January - TB872: STiP terminology
3rd January - TB872: Different understandings of the word ‘system’
3rd January - TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies?
3rd January - TB872: Systems practice and social relations

2023

30th December - TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
29th December - TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
29th December - TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
29th December - TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
28th December - TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can’t create the territory from my map
28th December - TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
28th December - TB872: Regression and recursion
23rd December - TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
23rd December - TB872: System-determined problems
19th December - TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms
15th December - TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry
12th December - TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology
12th December - TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
12th December - TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry
3rd December - TB872: The role of narrative in STiP
2nd December - TB872: DAD vs EDD
1st December - TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice)
27th November - TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment
25th November - TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
25th November - TB872: Communities and networks
25th November - TB872: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
24th November - TB872: Mapping prior experience of ‘learning systems’
24th November - TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning
24th November - TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic
22nd November - TB872: Systems lineages
22nd November - TB872: Reﬂection, reﬂexivity, and ‘practice performances’
22nd November - TB872: ‘Method’ vs ‘Methodology’
22nd November - TB872: Relational thinking
17th November - TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
17th November - TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
17th November - TB872: The PFMS heuristic
17th November - TB872: Culturally feasible change
17th November - TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
15th November - TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
15th November - TB872: Experiencing situations of change
15th November - TB872: Types of change
12th November - TB872: The nature of change
11th November - TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
11th November - TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
10th November - TB872: creating a systems map of the module
8th November - TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy