Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) describes the use of models to help us frame questions to ask of the world, and which help us become explicit about our world views, assumptions, frames of reference, theories of cause and effect, values, and desired outcomes. Checkland, P. (2006) Learning for action: A short definitive account of […]
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Traders Roundtable: the eight “P’s” of trading success
At a recent weekend traders roundtable discussion, the topic of the keys to trading success came up. Experienced traders with different styles and different favorite markets and techniques identified what they thought were their best pieces of advice for novice traders. It was late in the day and adult beverages may have been served and […]
Traders roundtable: the three phases of new system innovation
At a recent traders roundtable discussion, we started to review the procedures and practices that each of us followed for coming up with new ideas to trade the market. While each trader have their own specific routines and follow, there were some aspects of their practice that were in common with each other. Here are […]
Profitable ETF trading strategies: cooperating with the voice of the future
Trading is by its very nature a crapshoot, filled with uncertainty. People find trading so difficult because it rewards the ability to maintain an open mind with respect to performance and uncertainty, whereas our pattern matching brain desires to create order out of chaos no matter what the cost. We like to believe that there […]
Profitable ETF trading strategies: a thought experiment with relative strength
Typically, traders will apply various technical analysis indicators to the behavior of price of an instrument in order to find moments of advantage. Many times these are combined in systems of ever-increasing complexity and apparent sophistication. All of these concepts however are based off of direct behavior of price. That’s not the only way that […]
Design versus planning: what to do when you don’t know what to do
The scientific method has been responsible for the most extraordinary improvement in mankind’s standard of living. Since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, it has been responsible for every major advance in human understanding and technology. The scientific method relies on a positivists worldview, which can be said to value certainty, control, objective reality, and planning. […]
Exploring the “n-dimensional” space of Narrative Inquiry
I always thought of storytelling as being of 1 kind; I am uncovering that there is something like an “n-dimensional space” of perspectives on story-telling. For instance, on just one dimension: scope. There is a hierarchy of how “complete and of what size” the story is that includes the following categories (arbitrary right now, and of […]
Developing emotional intelligence: a challenge for 21st-century education
In many organizations with a strong hierarchical culture, we place a premium on the deep insights and reflective learning of our most senior leaders. In these organizations it makes a lot of sense in conventional times to value their insights above all others. It would be normal in this kind of organization when faced with […]
Structuring “Voice” for academic reseachers
My mentor sent me an intriguing link concerning an evolution in the standards, structure, presentation and style for online articles published in the CELL network of 2000 scientific journals. here are the essential new proposed standards, which would be a great way for us to prepare lesson prep materials for our college . I will […]
The future of education in a net-centric world
reinventinglife.org Surveys of CEOs and futurists alike all agree that the future is calling to us with a need for open systems, open thinking, collaborative organizations, workplaces and attitudes. Net-centric democratic education, public and private movements for social justice, moral and honorable business enterprises, and cross cultural communications all place a premium on skills, tools, […]