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Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

A very interesting opinion has been published a while ago in the FT: “Market forces are not enough to halt climate change“ I like to repeat the quote used in the “Nature Anthropocene briefing of July 5“, with following comments:The desire for financial returns will mean that fossil fuels continue to be good investments, thus…

walterstiers

2024-07-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

When liars are considered honest

When honesty relies on sincerity rather than accuracy People in liberal democracies value honesty in their politicians and prioritize honesty over ‘delivering the goods’. How can serial liars be considered honest? This conundrum can be approached from a variety of angles. Here we apply the lens of recent theoretical work that has identified distinct subjective…

walterstiers

2024-05-24

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, honesty, trust, truth

Shifting attention

The Internal Dominance over External Attention (IDEA) hypothesis (I referred to earlier) asserts, contrary to the traditional view of attention as being primarily externally oriented, that attention is inherently biased toward internal information. A related work on attention switching has been published: “Shifting attention between perception and working memory“ Most everyday tasks require shifting the…

walterstiers

2024-05-24

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

Getting Things Right

The article “Getting Things Right; Diagnose and Design in The Evolution of Community Provisioning Systems” tackle the great questions behind the observation of “Why do some governments, organisations and community leaders seem to get it wrong in confronting a crisis?” Why do others succeed? Is there something to be learned from how the different responses…

walterstiers

2024-05-21

#sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, Complexity, Sustainability

What fails and when?

“What fails and when? A process view of innovation failure” presents: Research on innovation failure has proliferated lately but with little theoretical attention given to the diversity of the concept. Using process theorizing, the article presents a model and propositions to understand how a firm’s anticipation and value toward failure depends on the type of…

walterstiers

2024-05-21

#stakeholder economy, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Innovation Games, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, innovation

An Informational Approach to Emergence

Claudio Gnoli gives an updated view on emergence in “Foundations of Science“ Emergence can be described as a relationship between entities at different levels of organization, that looks especially puzzling at the transitions between the major levels of matter, life, cognition and culture. Indeed, each major level is dependent on the lower one not just…

walterstiers

2024-05-21

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, epistemology, ontology

Participatory Action Research

Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that prioritizes the value of experiential knowledge for tackling problems caused by unequal and harmful social systems, and for envisioning and implementing alternatives. PAR involves the participation and leadership of those people experiencing issues, who take action to produce emancipatory social change, through conducting systematic research…

walterstiers

2024-05-14

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, participatory-action-research, problem-solving

policymakers: enable individuals

Social, environmental, political and economic challenges — such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence — require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. Multidisciplinary meta-analyses of the individual and social-structural determinants of behaviour (for example, beliefs and norms, respectively) and the efficacy of behavioural change…

walterstiers

2024-05-14

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, behaviour, behaviour-change

On principles of emergent organization

Adam Rupe, James P. Crutchfield published “On principles of emergent organization“: After more than a century of concerted effort, physics still lacks basic principles of spontaneous self-organization. To appreciate why, we first state the problem, outline historical approaches, and survey the present state of the physics of self-organization. This frames the particular challenges arising from mathematical intractability and…

walterstiers

2024-05-07

#sense-making, #Wicked, Complexity, Information Technology

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, entropy, physics, Science, thermodynamics

How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future – Who is next ?

A stunning speech from Scott Galloway on TED, tackling the issues of western (US) society. However, the talk is about US, the issues are not just limited to the US, and can easily be found back in the modern western world. As such, this talk might be inspiring. In a scorching talk, marketing professor and…

walterstiers

2024-05-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens