Correlating Interactive Management With the Twenty Laws of Complexity

Argues that Interactive Management should be integrated into a university program. Asserts that the current system of higher education is ill-equipped to deal with an increasingly complex world.

As of October 1998, I don't believe this paper has been printed and distributed to anyone, although it seems fairly complete. The thrust of the paper is toward integrating interactive management into a university program, closing with the observation: "If one imagines a scale related to complexity of issues, ranging from the very simplest imaginable to the most difficult imaginable, one can then consider how the scale of representation enlarges as the scale of the issue enlarges. Notably a point is reached where as the complexity grows, the scale of representation stops changing at the point where conventional media have established benchmark dimensions. Even the university has established a standard size of chalk board, as though no matter what is being taught can be represented within that scale. This assumption goes hand in hand with another; which is that linear, sequential presentations are the only kind that will ever be used in representing subject matter. The fact that the latter belief is readily contradictable seems irrelevant to university administrations. Why choose the university as a focal organization? Because it is this institution that blesses the practice by carrying it out repeatedly, day after day, to all of its clientele; thereby setting a standard for society to follow. It is, therefore, the same institution that could change the practice, simply by acknowledging it and creating an infrastructure to deny its universality."




Additional Info

  • Category: Applications, Complexity, Education, Interactive Management (IM), Solutions or Improvements for Complex Situations
  • Size: 241 p
  • Description: Spiral bound manuscript with cover.
  • Publication Year: 1998
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