An evolving ecological view: Order grows

“An evolving ecological view is very different. Order grows. To get new order you need three things: constraints, fluctuations, and energy. No fluctuations, no seeds for the next round of growth. No constraints, no boundary to channel growth – you never get more than random collisions. No energy, no drive, no nothing” (Goerner, 1995, p. 30).

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Goerner, S. (1995), "Chaos, evolution, and deep ecology", in Robertsson, R., Combs, A. (Eds), Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ,.

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Intelligent Career Framework : Three ways of knowing

Note to self: Take a closer look at this one.

"a person’s (knowing-why) career motivation can be expected to influence his or her further investment in (knowing-how) expertise, as well as in (knowing-whom) relationship-building to help develop that expertise. In turn, fresh expertise and new relationships can be expected to influence future (knowing-why) motivation, and so on. It is also fundamental that the interactions will change over time. Yesterday’s (knowing-why) enthusiasm or (knowing-how) learning agenda or (knowing-whom) affiliations can be expected to change in the light of subsequent experience. The intelligent career view sees people, like their employer companies, to be engaged in perpetual adaptation."

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Parker, P., & Arthur, M. B. (2002). Bringing “new science” into careers research. M@n@gement, 5(1), 105-125. Retrieved from: http://www.cairn.info/revue-management-2002-1-page-105.htm 

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The Future is not yet Searchable

Albanese: "One of the interesting phrases from the book is "the future is not yet searchable." What do you mean-not yet searchable?"

Barabasi: "This is a question of trying to understand the limits of predictability. Are there fundamental limits that, no matter how much data you collect, you will never be able to predict what will happen tomorrow, or if you collect enough data, can you reasonably predict the future? In some cases, we see the answer is yes to the latter. When it comes to our location patterns, we recently published an article in Science that showed that individuals are 93% predictable. That means that if I collect enough data about your past locations, I can write a piece of software that can tell you where you're going to be tomorrow at 3 p.m. with 93% accuracy. With advances in data availability, we see predictability. So now what we have to do is pause and say, what does this mean?"

"Whether we realize it or not, much of our life is now recorded. We carry mobile phones every time we leave the house so mobile phone companies have a record of our motion. If you are like me, the first thing you do in the morning is check e-mail, so your e-mail provider has a pretty good record again of when you start working, and what you work on. Add to that all the surveillance cameras around major cities, ATM and credit card activity, and so on. If you were to collect all that information, you could pretty much piece together what a person does, let's say, over a year, almost at an hourly resolution. In the past, social science has relied mostly on interviews and observations, but now it is possible to look at everything we do in real-time."

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Albanese, A. R. (2010). You're so predictable. Publishers Weekly, 257(13), 17-n/a. Retrieved from http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20100329/42600-you-re-so-predictable.html

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Unlikely connections

Making unlikely connections, linking diverse  disciplines, and seeing patterns in apparent  randomness are key aspects of the thinking  and world-view of physicist, systems theorist  and philosopher Fritjof Capra. In an interview  with THE FOCUS, Capra explains how he sees  businesses as dynamic networks – and how  modern the work of Renaissance artist  Leonardo da Vinci actually is. 
source: http://www.egonzehnder.com/files/25_capra_2112_neu_1.pdf

Focus: "How do businesses change and renew themselves?"

Capra: "Businesses are networks of relationships; something happens, it influences behavior, and there’s a feedback loop. In such inter-relationships, any small disruption, any tiny influence can repeat, take a hold and multiply until it grows into a real crisis. All it needs is a chance remark by someone for there to be unease and uncertainty among colleagues and disruption that can’t just be absorbed. It causes anxiety and fundamentally destabilizes the system. People start to doubt what they already know and to question structures and processes. This chaotic state then spontaneously produces something new. Theorists call that ‘emergence’. Emergence isn’t managed; it’s the result of collective creativity."

Designed and emergent structures

"Human organisations always contain both designed and emergent structures. The two types of structures are very different but every organisation needs both kinds. Designed structures provide the rules and routines that are necessary for the effective functioning of the organisation… Designed structures provide stability. Emergent structures, on the other hand provide novelty, creativity and flexibility. They are adaptive, capable of changing and evolving. In todays complex environment purely designed structures do not have the necessary responsiveness and learning capability. They are deficient in learning and changing and therefore likely to be left behind. There is always tension between the organisations designed structure which embody the relationships of power and the emergent, structures which represent the organisations aliveness. The central function of future leadership is to create harmony between the two."

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Capra, F. (2003). The hidden connections: A science for sustainable living. HarperPerennial. 
http://www.stevezuieback.com/pdf_systems/hiddenconnections_summary_v.pdf

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kolkata

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The slums of Kolkata can be divided into three groups: the older ones, up to 150 years’ old, in the heart of the city, are associated with early urbanization. The second group dates from the 1940s and 1950s and emerged as an outcome of industrialization-based rural–urban migration, locating themselves around industrial sites and near infra-structural arteries. The third group came into being after the independence of India and took vacant urban lands and areas along roads, canals and on marginal lands. In 2001, 1.5 million people, or one third of Kolkata’s population, lived in 2011 registered and 3500 unregistered slums.

 

Registered Slums (bustees): these slums are recognized by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) on the basis of land title; since 1980, they have been taken over by the CMC for letting/lease to slum dwellers.

 

Unregistered slums: this comprises slums onthe land encroaching settlements.

 

The ”bustee-type” generally has some form of secure tenure or ownership rights based on land rent or lease, with structures built by the slum dwellers, or house rental/lease of structures built by third parties.


Tenure security is, in principle, not available to the unregistered land encroaching settlements on road sides (jhupri), along canals (khaldhar) or on other vacant land (udbastu).


Over 40 per cent of Kolkata’s slum residents have been slum dwellers for two generations or longer, and more than half originate from the Kolkata hinterland. With the majority engaged in the informal sector, with average monthly earnings of between 500 and 1700 rupees and a household size of five to six persons, some three-quarters of the Kolkata slum population are below the poverty line.


This summary has been extracted from:

UN-Habitat (2003) Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, The Challenge of Slums, Earthscan, London; Part IV: ‘Summary of City Case Studies’, pp195-228.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Kolkata_bw.pdf


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Web in the sky

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Balloon-powered Internet access
Project Loon

"For 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach."

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http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2013/06/introducing-project-loon.html

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