Language

In theory, everyone is for the learning organisation or the mobilisation of collective intelligence. How could you be against it? Would that make you in favour of the "stupid organisation"? Yet few organisations have developed a model for a sustai...

Not so long ago I used to joke with colleagues that we were going to so many meetings that it was almost impossible to work. Like many, I was blind to the fact that our conversations during the meetings were in fact the most important part of our ...

Patterns are Structures in Systems Structures in this case does not mean pre-defined forms that “structure” systems but rather the pool of possibilities of action of a system that itself can recognise. A system has (or recognises) only a limited a...

Reading about language, dialogue and complex systems used to be parallel readings with some things in common. Today, language and complexity seem to clearly show their interdependency as we have been exploring social systems as meaning systems bas...

I can clearly recall a phrase that I’ve heard years ago in Porto Alegre, city of the World Social Forum. It was in Portuguese by Leonardo Boff and translates as something like: A point of view is only a view from a point. Different points of view ...

On the fundamental changes that can be done in our societal systems, the major influence will never be a contribution from inside the systems themselves. We've already explored how to identify cracks in the system so we can give energy to its ...

I've heard that we are made of stories, not atoms. At school, where we study people both in biology and history*, I did think we could be both. Specially because there are people who are not biology anymore but are still history and even some peop...