scholarly journals Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Yawson ◽  
Ivy Johnson-Kanda
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Points Of View

Complex Adaptive Leadership offers ways to shift the focus of practice to one that reflects, embraces multiple points of view, and changes in response to new knowledge and data. From a societal perspective, complex adaptive leadership provides organizations with the opportunity to grapple with the most significant and persistent problems of our time and potentially achieve real change. The paper explores complexity theory in more detail and its influence on social systems using gender bias and terrorism as examples. Using the Human Security Framework as a complex adaptive leadership approach in addressing Wicked Problems, this paper describes the Human Security dimensions to understand the wicked problems in which 21st-century organizations grapple with and the type of organizational leadership needed to confront these challenges.

scholarly journals Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Yawson ◽  
Ivy Johnson-Kanda
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Points Of View

Complex Adaptive Leadership offers ways to shift the focus of practice to one that reflects, embraces multiple points of view, and changes in response to new knowledge and data. From a societal perspective, complex adaptive leadership provides organizations with the opportunity to grapple with the most significant and persistent problems of our time and potentially achieve real change. The paper explores complexity theory in more detail and its influence on social systems using gender bias and terrorism as examples. Using the Human Security Framework as a complex adaptive leadership approach in addressing Wicked Problems, this paper describes the Human Security dimensions to understand the wicked problems in which 21st-century organizations grapple with and the type of organizational leadership needed to confront these challenges.

scholarly journals The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information

Systems ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
John Turner ◽  
Dave Snowden ◽  
Nigel Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Structure Learning ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Construction Tasks ◽  
Post Hoc

The substrate-independence theory utilizes sensemaking techniques to provide cognitively based scaffolds that guide and structure learning. Scaffolds are cognitive abstractions of constraints that relate to information within a system. The substrate-independence theory concentrates on the flow of information as the underlying property of the host system. The substrate-independence theory views social systems as complex adaptive systems capable of repurposing their structure to combat external threats by utilizing constructors and substrates. Constructor theory is used to identify potential construction tasks, the legitimate input and output states that are possible, to map the desired change in the substrate’s attributes. Construction tasks can be mapped in advance for ordered and known environments. Construction tasks may also be mapped in either real-time or post hoc for unordered and complex environments using current sensemaking techniques. Mapping of the construction tasks in real-time becomes part of the landscape, and scaffolds are implemented to aid in achieving the desired state or move to a more manageable environment (e.g., from complex to complicated).

scholarly journals ON THOMAS BERNHARD’S NARRATIVE THINKING: «ETERNAL RETURN» AND A POLYPHONIC WRITING

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
V.V. Kotelevskaya
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Narrative Thinking ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Thomas Bernhard ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

The article explores the typological principles and genesis of narrative thinking of Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989). It reveals the paradoxical nature of his writing, which combines, on the one hand, archetypal structures, implied ‘genre memory’, and on the other hand, a unique, innovative style. Bernhard’s constructive principle is repetition, which allows the embodiment of the idea of «eternal return» (Eliade) throughout the poetical structure, whether it is a sacred event of a myth or an «obsessive repetition» (Freud) of the traumatic memories of the protagonist or the narrator. The fragmented world is under constant reorganizing with the help of Bernhard’s polyphonic writing, which finds itself mostly in the imitation of the non-figurative, purely expressive, self-referential «art of fugue» (Bach), oriented to the cyclic, rather than linear-historical concept of time. In contrast to the literary interpretation of the «polyphonic novel» (Bakhtin) with its coexistence of multiple points of view, our attention is shifted to the musicological interpretation of the fugue’s polyphony as the embodied idea of the continuity of time, the closeness and infinity of the divine universe.

Am I Speaking Prose? Rejoinder to “Critical Language and Discourse Awareness in Management Education”

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-685
Author(s):  
Allan R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
What Works ◽  
Communications Skills ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
Skills Education

This essay claims too much and too little for Critical Language Discourse, an interesting subject, but in my view not necessary as a separate topic from Needed Communications Skills Education. Those skills are best learned in context, working on specific challenges with specific audiences where there are particular communications problems to be overcome, then discussed from multiple points of view, including numerous relevant theories and concepts. Frequent iterations between challenges tackled, what works under which circumstances, what does not, and so on, builds a deeper understanding of oral and written communications, without necessarily learning theoretical names for the one form of theory.

A Guide to Non-Disclosure Agreements for Researchers

2009 ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
Paul D. Witman
Keyword(s):  
Information Assurance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Information Assurance And Security

This chapter provides a set of guidelines to assist information assurance and security researchers in creating, negotiating, and reviewing non-disclosure agreements, in consultation with appropriate legal counsel. It also reviews the use of non-disclosure agreements in academic research environments from multiple points of view. Active academic researchers, industry practitioners, and corporate legal counsel all provided input into the compiled guidelines. An annotated bibliography and links are provided for further review.

A Guide to Non-Disclosure Agreements for Researchers Using Public and Private Sector Sources

2009 ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
Paul D. Witman
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Public And Private Sector

This chapter provides a set of guidelines to assist information systems researchers in creating, negotiating, and reviewing nondisclosure agreements, in consultation with appropriate legal counsel. It also reviews the use of nondisclosure agreements in academic research environments from multiple points of view, including the perspectives of both public and private sectors. Active academic researchers, industry practitioners, and corporate legal counsel all provided input into the compiled guidelines. An annotated bibliography and links are provided for further review.

scholarly journals Exploiting Inter- and Intra-Base Crossing with Multi-Mappings: Application to Environmental Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hicham Hajj-Hassan ◽  
Anne Laurent ◽  
Arnaud Martin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Location ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Single Data

Environmental data are currently gaining more and more interest as they are required to understand global changes. In this context, sensor data are collected and stored in dedicated databases. Frameworks have been developed for this purpose and rely on standards, as for instance the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) provided by the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC), where all measurements are bound to a so-called Feature of Interest (FoI). These databases are used to validate and test scientific hypotheses often formulated as correlations and causality between variables, as for instance the study of the correlations between environmental factors and chlorophyll levels in the global ocean. However, the hypotheses of the correlations to be tested are often difficult to formulate as the number of variables that the user can navigate through can be huge. Moreover, it is often the case that the data are stored in such a manner that they prevent scientists from crossing them in order to retrieve relevant correlations. Indeed, the FoI can be a spatial location (e.g., city), but can also be any other object (e.g., animal species). The same data can thus be represented in several manners, depending on the point of view. The FoI varies from one representation to the other one, while the data remain unchanged. In this article, we propose a novel methodology including a crucial step to define multiple mappings from the data sources to these models that can then be crossed, thus offering multiple possibilities that could be hidden from the end-user if using the initial and single data model. These possibilities are provided through a catalog embedding the multiple points of view and allowing the user to navigate through these points of view through innovative OLAP-like operations. It should be noted that the main contribution of this work lies in the use of multiple points of view, as many other works have been proposed for manipulating, aggregating visualizing and navigating through geospatial information. Our proposal has been tested on data from an existing environmental observatory from Lebanon. It allows scientists to realize how biased the representations of their data are and how crucial it is to consider multiple points of view to study the links between the phenomena.

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