ISBN: 9780463790052
Organizational Pathology is an exploration of the organizational dynamics that describe ‘us at work’. In this series of essays, the conditions, characteristics, and behaviors that help us adapt to organizational life are examined relative to our challenges and capacity for change. All of us in organizational life will benefit from examining and exploring the workscape.
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ISBN 9781370737635
The Workscape Renaissance has precipitated a host of interesting conditions and an equal number of challenges. Workscape Renaissance is a broad advocacy for improving our problem engagement capacity. This book recommends eight personal transformations required to identify, engage, and prevent an ever-increasing problem complexity we face in the contemporary workscape.
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ISBN 9781370711093
Our contemporary society is enmeshed in complexity and drowning in unintended consequences. All one has to do is look around to see what is causing controversy or contention to gain an appreciation that our ability to comprehend and cope is waning.
The promise and practice of Transdisciplinarity offers professionals an advanced methodology to leverage transdisciplinary thinking.
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ISBN 9781370279500
Many of today’s complex problems have no solution – only compromises, controversies, and contention. Although complexity is arguably, an interpretation there can be little doubt of the ominous caliber of complex systems. We don’t solve complex systems problems, we design solutions based upon how we define and analyze the problem and its parameters.
Designing a solution is a subtle but fundamental shift in professional practice from solving a problem. This is not semantic jostling but more a paradigmatic shift from solving as a terminus toward engagement as a continuum; it is a calculus more than a conclusion.
Awesome by Design argues the software design and development process is not only a design exemplar it is a quintessential cognitive surrogate for problem engagement. The core of the design process lies with eliciting requirements that guide the design. Thus, it is the art and science of eliciting requirements that drives what the solution must accomplish.
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ISBN: 9781370467310
Tailgate to Table amplifies the idea that not all of us are ready for the professional culinary world. Some become very serious amateur chefs, others just want to be able to make one signature dish. This is not a ‘cook book’ nor is this a ‘how to book’. This is a rollicking advocacy for culinary experimentation for the commoner.
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ISBN: 9780463320556
Guitar Mathematics is a compendium of ‘things’ that make understanding the guitar easier for beginners, casual players, or pros. Guitar Mathematics is deliberately written to uncover the patterns and relationships that are used to create scales and chords, and the relationships between and within scales and chords. Guitar Mathematics is really a teacher’s notebook replete with scribbling in the margins and highlighted passages for easy reference.
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ISBN 9781005115975
The Problem is the Problem is an exposé of why critical thinking is so desperately needed in contemporary society. Critical, as in ‘critique’, is the critical examination or review of the merits of a subject, position, or theory as a reflection of contemporary society. Examples might include social issues, conservative politics, or public policy. Invariably, almost anything that forces us to evaluate and judge has potential to be ‘a problem’. This book explains how critical thinking can be used to improve our capacity for problem engagement.
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ISBN: 9798440234260
The Crisis Society is a treatise that exposes how a crisis mindset has developed and driven a crisi narrative. The narrative seeks to aggrandize and amplify society’s problems, not for solution, but for leverage. A cadre of actors are invested in the narrative’s pathology and propagation, as political theater and thought leadership.
The Crisis Society proposes one probable approach to advance critical thinking about the crisis narrative and its intellectual underpinnings. Today, like no other time, we are faced with misrepresentation and misunderstanding on a scale and complexity never seen before. It is incumbent upon all of us to seek a new knowledge and new way of understanding only possible with critical thinking.