The hybrid approach you referred to I think reflects the sense of the sociotechnical process. I can’t imagine why people and organizations would not intentionally adopt that as the default position when considering organizational issues, and yet I see people polarizing around either or approach all time in my organization. It seems to me that […]
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Australia and Canada for the long haul
Jim Rogers : The faster numbers will be in economies that are well managed and that have commodities because commodities are in a bull market. Indonesia is doing much better this decade than it did in the 1990s because there was a commodity bear market in those days. Australia is going to do better than Belgium. […]
There was a ton of press about the horrors of JP Morgan about 2B in losses but here is California misunderestimating their budget shortfalls by 7B in the last 4 minutes California’s budget deficit has swelled to $16 billion after tax collections trailed projections amid the tepid economic recovery, Governor Jerry Brown said in a comment on […]
Reflection on Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (part 2)
Thomas Kuhn’s influential book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” ignited a firestorm of debate and controversy in 1962 which continues unabated to this very day. Noted as the most widely cited book in the 20th century, Kuhn’s writing has penetrated the public consciousness to shape our collective language and thinking about science, truth and ethics. […]
Reflecting on Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
I am enjoying Dr Steven Goldman’s 24 lecture series from the Teaching Company on “Science Wars: What scientists know and how they know it” Lectures 16 thru 22 are directly related to Kuhn, does a great job of summarizing the context and subsequent interpretation of Kuhn’s work. Synopsis: Kuhn was a pro-science scientist, whose work […]
Reflection on the “art of military logistics”
Reflecting outloud on a discussion I am having with a SAMS officer who is inquiring into doctrinal considerations of educating for the “art of logistics” based on his experiences in Afghanistan. In the same way that I think defining “science” for the purposes of the thesis is important, I think defining “the art of […]
A Reflection on 4 epistemologies (ways of knowing :P )
Distinguish among the 4 types of epistemology that Heron and Reason (Chapter 24) suggest. How will your work encourage multiple ways of knowing beyond just “propositional knowledge”? from The SAGE Handbook of Action Research (2d ed) by Reason and Bradbury (2008). London, SAGE Publications,