The time modality ‘future past’ seems to be a strange nexus. Something which has no actuality in the present (of the observing system), but will become relevant in the future – what could that be? A simple example of this is capital formation. In the present, one does without consumption (=updating) of available means and …
Hardly any modality of time in the real world occupies people, teams and organisations as much as the present future: included in this are goals, plans, visions, strategies, progress and many others besides. The present imagination about an (attractive) future is part of every present. Similar as with the present past, that which seems attractive, …
Everything that happens, happens for the first and last time. This alone could be reason enough to give meaning to the subject of mindfulness and awareness. Living in the here and now has become an almost proverbial aspect of the paradox of time for psychological systems. But teams and organisations also do well to check …
If you have ever experienced how four witnesses describe the events leading up to an accident in different, and hardly reconcilable ways, you will know that the past is not fixed. However, this is also observable within a person: who is not familiar with how one and the same life event has been remembered and …
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Every current present builds upon the past, once present: nothing starts with zero. Every person, every team and every organisation is limited by its history. Studies, or a marriage, can no-more be erased, than the competences or the social climate of a team can be swopped from one day to another, or the existing organisation …
If you think quantum-theoretically, the simplest form of schematising the future is the question: “Which of two possible circumstances will occur?”. Clearly, the one will happen and become the present and the other will not arise, although it was potentially possible. Therefore, futures ‘exist’ which never become the present: missed, discarded, overlooked, avoided, prevented, escaped, …
Agility is not understood here in the sense of agile concepts which refer to action consequences and -patterns. Here, agility is perceived as the potential of a system to respond effectively to current situations. The characteristic of this agile potential is that who knows the solution is not predetermined (“The boss knows that!”), what it …
Just imagine for a moment that you could remember everything that ever happened, what has ever been and what you have experienced. Absolutely everything, every detail, every sentence, every thought! At the latest then do you realise how important the past past is: much of what was will never return! Being able to forget and …
The term ‘Defensive Routines’ comes from Chris Agyris. With it, he gathered many observations about how the retention of the status quo is ensured in organisations. In this, the term refers on the one hand to psychodynamics, as he sees the reasons for defensive behaviour in the fact that individuals fear a loss of face …