System Thinking Guru turns 90.
Russell Ackoff, systems thinking legend is still going strong at 90. This Ackoff Centre blog contains some great links, videos, articles and commentary.
I love the way Ackoff looks at problems and solutions in our dominant linear thinking world. Where solving a problem creates another problem and solving that causes another…. until [...]
Archive for the ‘LinkedIn’ Category
“Problems are to reality what atoms are to tables”
Posted in LinkedIn, Systems Thinking, tagged Ackoff, problem-solving, problems, system of messes, Systems Thinking on 6, March, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Climate Change speeding up as Ocean CO2 sink full
Posted in Blogroll, LinkedIn on 4, December, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Back to this neglected blog ! Picking up the comments from Sanjay on the 22 tipping points in the global climate system, I first heard this in a lecture at the Australian Academy of Science Shine Dome covering more on climate feedback loops. So many of our computer modelling of the indicators of change have [...]
Reticence, Reluctance and Inertia or just plain retarded, Universities & Education for Sustainability
Posted in Blockages to Change, Climate Change Denial, LinkedIn, University on 8, October, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The Talloires Declaration* (pronounced Tal whar) was drafted in 1990 in Talloires, France, and starts
We, the presidents, rectors, and vice chancellors of universities from all regions of the world are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural resources.
Local, regional, and global air and [...]
