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Nature seems to be able to create self organization without
an external manager. We might need to search for the forces
which are behind this phenomena - and learn from it.
A source with exactly this in mind - applied to management:
Mewes: Energo-Cybernetic Management.

Emil Zahner
Innovation coach
Morphological Institute Canada
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor/index19.htm


P.S.
If only people would stop triple quotations of past responses.


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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 07:08:12 +0200
From: "John L. Keifer" <Keiferj@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: What would ...?? -Reply

The implication is that self-organization can work if the incentive
structure gets it right. Unfortunately, still someone must create the
right context or circumstances for self-organization to work. Therefore,
some "management" is inevitable.
<refering to Dutch Driver>
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For those interested in the concept of self-organizing systems, I would
recommend Milan Zeleny, AUTOPOIESIS: A THEORY OF LIVING ORGANIZATION - 1981 and
AUTOPOIESIS, DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES, AND SPONTANEOUS SOCIAL ORDERS - 1980 and Eric
Jantsch, DESIGN FOR EVOLUTION - 1975 and THE SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE - 1980.
Tom Hawk, Frostburg State University. t_hawk@fre.fsu.umd.edu