The Arab Spring is an amazing example of emergence in the process of change. This speech given by Riyaad Minty, Manager of Al Jazeera Network’s social media initiatives, shows how people using social media to connect and communicate develop the needed critical mass to successfully overthrow the government of Egypt.
Complexity theory and studies of complex adaptive systems tells us that the amount of connections between the agents or the parts is a critical factor enabling emergent change. In this speech Riyaad Minty tells us how Twitter together with Al Jazeera enabled (or facilitated) the Arab Spring.
For further reading I highly recommend Margreth Wheatly’s article on emergence and social innovations.
Henrik Challis
Source: Media Evolution – The Conference in Malmö Sweden 27th of …
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Taggar: Change Agents, change management, Change process, Emergence, Systemic
Theory U: Leading from the future as it emerges – The social technology of presencing.
In this amazing book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways—and to learn from the future as it emerges. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at the same level of thought that created them.
Theory U explores a whole new territory of scientific research and personal leadership. By moving through the “U” we learn to connect to our originating Self. We travel down the left side of the “U” to find ourselves in the realm of presencing, where we learn to sense the future that is seeking to emerge. At that level of operating, we experience the opening of our …
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Taggar: change management, Emergence, leadership, management, otto scharmer, Theory
I have just rediscovered Margaret Wheatley’s work, as I tend to do now and then. This article introduces how emergence as a change theory, offers methods and practices to accomplish systems-wide change.
http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/emergence.html
Henrik Challis
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Taggar: Change, change management, Change process, Emergence, Social Innovation, Systemic
Emergent complexity can arise from simple interactions between agents following rules. The complexity that arises is suprising and challenges our assumptions about whether order comes from the top or the bottom.
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This is part two.
Emergent complexity can arise from simple interactions between agents following rules. The complexity that arises is suprising and challenges our assumptions about whether order comes from the top or the bottom.
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Taggar: Change, change management, Change process, Emergence, Systemic
In our efforts to empower change and transformation in organizations we find great inspiration in the scientific fields of complexity theory and complex adaptive systems (CAS).
Examples of complex adaptive systems include the stock market, ant colonies, the ecosystem, the brain, the immune system and any human social group-based endeavour. There are close relationships between the field of CAS and artificial life. In both areas the principles of emergence and self-organization are very important.
The systems are complex in that they are dynamic networks of interactions and relationships. They are adaptive in that their individual and collective behaviour changes as a result of experience. They change and adapt.
This particular film clip introduces the science of complexity. The clip is from The Cassiopeia Project …
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Taggar: Change, Complexity, Emergence, Systemic, Theory
