If one assumes, like here, that organisations are systems which are self-sustaining and configuring, one question arises: who configures, how, and with what? It cannot be people, otherwise it would be them who configure and sustain the organisations (although this is what is commonly understood). If, on the other hand, one sees communication processes as …
Organisations would be better called ‘Process of organising’, because they are not a thing which is unchanging, independent and thus determinable. But then, immediately, the question arises: what is actually being organised? The answer is communication. Therefore, organisations are processing patterns for communication. Aah! And what does that mean? If organisations consisted of people or …
“Is something at rest really more content than something in motion? Is the immutable really and necessarily more valuable than a thing which changes? And if someone contradicts himself a thousand times and walks many paths and carries many masks and cannot find an end in himself or in the horizon: is it possible that …
One notices good will towards indistinct horizons, a certain, wise caution about convictions, a mistrust of enchantment and circumvention of conscience, which every strong faith carries with it. Within it you may perceive the caution of a burnt child, of a deceived idealist – What seems to me fundamentally more grounded is the pleasurable instinct …
“Only that, which carries contradiction within itself, is alive – but only those who can grasp it, otherwise it will lead to their downfall.” G.W.F. Hegel, The Science of Logic, Chapter 97.
“We would have a type of theory design which builds neither upon the natural law of the old style, or its statistical derivative, nor on the guiding motive of technically proven connections. … It would not be logic which sought to exclude paradoxes for the purpose of consistency, but rather a theory, which kept open …
“No, don’t sleep while the guardians of the world are busy! … Do the unnecessary, sing the songs no one expects to hear from your mouth! Be inconvenient, be as sand, not like the oil in the workings of the world! “Dream.” Guenther Eich, Four Plays. P 190.
“The more methodically people proceed, the more effectively coincidences will strike them.” The Physicists, Friedrich Duerrenmatt
From 2019 you will gradually find here explanations to the cross-references concerning the dynamics of people, teams, conflicts and organisations. These are, in particular, about how these dynamics mutually rest on each other, limit each other, enable, irritate and stabilise each other. These relationships are necessary for an understanding of change processes, because otherwise the …
How (different) systems stabilise and how they change are the questions to which this metatheory is dedicated. Here we focus upon the dynamics of the psyche, conflict, teams and organisations. We build on the system theory of the Bielefeld school, on temporal, existential, phenomenological and Buddhist philosophies, on Gestalt-psychology, depth-psychology and humanistic psychotherapy, as well …