The recent flurry of emails indicate a latent interest in this community. As Kent indicates, we have a more efficient place to conduct such a discussion, than...
Steve - thanks for this note - I have not been connected for a while but would like to stay in contact with this group and individual members. For some time ...
JAMES T ZIEGENFUSS,JR
jtz1@...
Sep 30, 2008 12:37 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the SystemsThinkers group. File : /A...
SystemsThinkers@yahoo...
Sep 30, 2008 12:43 am
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I have heard from a couple of folks on ideas for how to change things. The first version is posted here, and I will write and post a second version. But...
Systems thinkers, Oguz sees the urgency of doing something. He wrote, presciently: "....first week of september, but this might be too late. The world might...
Dear Kent and colleagues: I would like and enjoy joining this group to think about ways out of the current mess we find ourselves in. Count me in. All the best...
Francisco Sagasti
fsagasti@...
Oct 12, 2008 1:27 am
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Below are excerpts from a letter Joan sent to me. It is the kind of interaction that the project requires. My response includes updates directed to all....
Below are excerpts from a letter Ken Wing sent to me. My response follows. We need such interaction, plus a few more participants. Kent ==================== ...
[Curt McNamara has an online activity that he invites list members to. Kent] Here is an offer: we do a systems study group on-line with web meeting and...
From Ken Wing: Per de Bono, a provocation is an obviously false statement whose possibilities are explored as if it were true. So here's a provocation: Po:...
1st comment from Ken Wing: Some ideas related to the list of application chapters: Maybe "health care" should be broadened to "health" Education seems like it...
1st comment from Ken Wing: Some ideas related to the list of application chapters: Maybe "health care" should be broadened to "health" Education seems like it...
Frank Voehl suggests "conflicting practices" as an improvement over "misguided practices." That's better, but I don't think it escapes Ken's criticism. A...
Two responses to this Po: "The people's understanding of our collective global situation is already far ahead of current institutions, their leaders, and...
Hi. Please would you mind circulating this job opportunity (see attached) to people on your mailing list who might be interested. The position is based at ESR...
Midgley, Gerald
gerald.midgley@...
Nov 15, 2008 10:41 pm
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Position Announcement The position is based at ESR (a government research institute in New Zealand), working with my team. We are looking for a systems thinker...
Tom Cuddy writes: The Greenspan quote has intrigued me since he made it, and I find the phenomenon an interesting one to ponder and to plumb for social causes ...
Review of: Rafael Ramirez, John W. Selsky, Kees van der Heijden, Business Planning for Turbulent Times: New Methods for Applying Scenarios, Earthscan, 2008....
"Every social revolution is preceded by, or brings with it, a change in the perception of the world or a change in the perception of the possible or both....
Frank Voehl writes: "The U.S. National Science Foundation adopted in 1997 a policy -- as part of a strategic plan developed in 1995 --that research proposals ...
Kent: What I have begun to increasingly realize in my own work over the past 30 years or so, as is the case with many other people that I work with, is that...
FYI Institute of Medicine _Workshop: the Application of Systems Thinking to the Development and Use of Evidence in Obesity Prevention Decision Making - ._ ...
Dear group members, A new book on Third World development has been just released. Its title: PARTICIPATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO. How to involve people in...
Dear Friends, Helen would like to have a small get-together on Sunday from 2 - 4pm at her and Russ' old home (Benson House, 930 Montgomery Ave, Apt 101, Bryn...
A Memorial Service for Dr. Russell Ackoff will be held on February 12, 2010, which would have been Dr. Ackoff's 91st birthday. The details are not yet set. The...
University of Pennsylvania Almanac - November 10, 2009, Volume 56, No. 11 http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v56/n11/obit.html Dr. Ackoff, Wharton Ackoff Dr....
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14790477 Business.view Nov 3rd 2009 ======================== How to Change the System ...
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