Muso Musings: Fatherhood, Theory & Stuff
"T'is hard the kinds of Knowledge are but two,
The One erroneous, the Other true.
The former profits nothing when 'tis gain'd,
The other's difficult to be attain'd."
Abu Jaaphar Ebn Tophail's
INTRODUCTION
To the LIFE of
Hai Ebn Yokdhan.
Sunday, 30 August 2015
SuperCompetent Democracies, Dissolving Neoliberalism, Elitism and Managerialism.
The New Book By Roy Madron
Video series trailer.
Without an ensemble of those very different Super-Competencies, the re-invention of democracy will fail because, “A revolution that is not more technically proficient and more effective than the regime it supplants is lost.”2 If however, democracy
can be successfully re-invented, in a few decades we will see the
emergence of a global network of complex, adaptive
socio-technical-ecological systems that are,
Enduring in purposes and principles
Powered from the periphery, unified from the core
Equitable in the distribution of power, rights, responsibilities, and rewards
Linked by fluid webs of cooperation and competition
Compatible with the human spirit and the biosphere
The book will propose how Super-competent Democracies could be achieved. It comprises:
Introduction: MEET THE COMBATANTS
Part 1: LEARNING FROM THE NEO-LIBERAL THOUGHT-COLLECTIVE
Part 2: THE DROPPING OF THE PENNIES
Part 3: CHALLENGING THE DOMINANT PARADIGM.
Part 4: THE SUPER-COMPETENCIES PARADIGM
Part 5: THE SUPER-COMPETENCIES COMMUNITY
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Super-Competent
Democracies: Readers Video Series
Dissolving
Neoliberalism,
Managerialism and Elitism
Interviews with the Author Roy Madron.
This
book proposes that our societies will have to become 'Super-Competent
Democracies'
in order to learn how to manage the immensely complex
challenges and threats that we are facing.
The
purpose of the book is to explain why and howSuper-Competent
Democracies have to
emerge so that our societies can become increasingly just and
increasingly sustainable.
The
world we live in and depend upon is immensely complex and so are the
problems, the threats and the challenges that we face. Because they
are complex,
they cannot be solved with the lavish application of technological
ingenuity and human resources as we can with 'simple'
problems such as building a bridge or 'complicated'
problems such as putting a man on the moon.
As
David
Snowden and Mary E.Boon
said in A
leader's framework for decision making,
(Harvard
Business Review:
November 2000)
Complex
problems involve
large numbers of interacting elements
The
interactions are nonlinear, and minor changes can produce
disproportionately major consequences.
The
system is dynamic, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,
and solutions can’t
be imposed; rather, they arise from the circumstances.
They
emphasise that tackling complexproblems
requires
"A
deep understanding of context, the ability to embrace complexity and
paradox, and a willingness to flexibly change leadership style."Indeed
by treating complex problems as if they were simple or complicated
leads to the emergence of disastrously chaotic outcomes, of which
there are multitudes of florid examples at every level from the local
to the global.
By contrast, by
applying ensembles of 'Super-Competencies' complex problems can be
dissolved,
as the great management cybernetician Stafford Beer says in 'Decision
and Control'. (1966)
All
of the 'Super-Competencies'
we can use to dissolve the complex ecological, economic, social and
political challenges and threats we are facing have been tried and
tested and rigorously evaluated over the past fifty years or so.
However,
while learning how to dissolve those problems, we will also have to
dissolve three great ideological obstacles to their implementation:
Neoliberalism,
Managerialism and Elitism. The
anti-human, anti-nature and anti-democratic systems that have been
created by these three ideologies are herding the whole of the human
family, and much of the natural world to the brink of chaos and
extinction.
Why
and how these ideologies combine to present a lethal danger to the
future of the human family and the natural systems on which we depend
is detailed in the first half of the book.
Fantastic Book, Interview with the Author here about the book on Resonance 104.4 FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3njSw... also new interview about Roy Madrons New Book Here.
Super-Competent Democracies:
Dissolving Neoliberalism, Managerialism and Elitism
This book proposes that our societies will have to become 'Super-Competent Democracies' in order to learn how to manage the immensely complex challenges and threats that we are facing.
The purpose of the book is to explain why and howSuper-Competent Democracies have to emerge so that our societies can become increasingly just and increasingly sustainable.
The world we live in and depend upon is immensely complex and so are the problems, the threats and the challenges that we face. Because they are complex, they cannot be solved with the lavish application of technological ingenuity and human resources as we can with 'simple' problems such as building a bridge or 'complicated' problems such as putting a man on the moon.
As David Snowden and Mary E.Boon said in A leader's framework for decision making, (Harvard Business Review: November 2000)
Complex problems involve large numbers of interacting elements
The interactions are nonlinear, and minor changes can produce disproportionately major consequences.
The system is dynamic, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and solutions can’t be imposed; rather, they arise from the circumstances.
They emphasise that tackling complex problems requires "A deep understanding of context, the ability to embrace complexity and paradox, and a willingness to flexibly change leadership style." Indeed by treating complex problems as if they were simple or complicated leads to the emergence of disastrously chaotic outcomes, of which there are multitudes of florid examples at every level from the local to the global. By contrast, by applying ensembles of 'Super-Competencies' complex problems can be dissolved, as the great management cybernetician Stafford Beer says in 'Decision and Control'. (1966)
All of the 'Super-Competencies' we can use to dissolve the complex ecological, economic, social and political challenges and threats we are facing have been tried and tested and rigorously evaluated over the past fifty years or so.
However, while learning how to dissolve those problems, we will also have to dissolve three great ideological obstacles to their implementation: Neoliberalism, Managerialism and Elitism. The anti-human, anti-nature and anti-democratic systems that have been created by these three ideologies are herding the whole of the human family, and much of the natural world to the brink of chaos and extinction.
Why and how these ideologies combine to present a lethal danger to the future of the human family and the natural systems on which we depend is detailed in the first half of the book.
