File Toward an Evolutionary Approach to Organizing
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Short Story - The hero Kevembuangga and the crocodile Kavwokmali
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Bateson on the fundamentals of science, and on form and substance, using two different myths on the origins of the world. On the art of bringing together empirical observations and scientific principles.
Short Story - The battle of spirit levels
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Weicks (who borrowed it from others) story on a laboratory apparatus that can serve as a simulation device for many different forms of interdependence. On mutual and sequential interdependence.
Short Story - Playing soccer with Weick
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Two metaphors for organizing. Two games of soccer, played on two strange fields, with uncommon (or very common?) rules. Another exercise to get familiar with the way the file Toward an evolutionary approach to organizing deals with organizing.
Short Story - On elephant trunks
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Batesons story on the relation between context and meaning and on relations as basis for definitions. Relation and interaction as basic vocabulary for talking about organizing.
Short Story - Mirror, mirror on the wall...
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Batesons story on description, tautology, and explanation, and how they are related to each other. Of useful assistance to the deconstruction of mainstream views on organization.