self organizing systems
Birgitt Williams
birgitt at mindspring.com
Wed Dec 13 10:16:12 PST 2000
Ed,
thank you for this. I have also just read an interesting article in Nov 27
2000 edition of Forbes ASAP magazine about Stephen Wolfram (mathematician)
and cellular automata--and his theory that things didn't start with chaos
but with order--just a few rules and it was from this order that all of the
complexity was enabled to emerge. Interesting.
Blessings,
Birgitt
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: self organizing systems
Hello!
I don't have time to set out my own point of view, but you might want to
read Ralph Stacey's new series of books (beginning with COMPLEXITY AND
MANAGEMENT (2000)). He has moved away from believing that organisations are
complex adaptive systems, and argues that there are fundamental problems
with viewing organisations entirely - or even primarily - as systems.
Good wishes
Ed
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>From Thu Dec 14 13:12:13 2000
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hello all,
just got a call from tom mawson, with american society of civil
engineers.
seems they have a conference in houston this july and are interested in
having that happen in open space.
do you know anyone who could help them out in the houston area?
if so, please email tom directly at: mailto:tmawson at asce.org
many thanks, michael
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>From Thu Dec 14 15:09:33 2000
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Subject: openspaceworld.org - translations!!!
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many thanks to...
artur silva
veronique dos santos
ingrid olausson
diane gibeault
michael pannwitz
and peggy holman
for their contributions to the latest additions to
http://www.openspaceworld.org !!!
we now have swedish, portuguese, german AND more french pages on the
worldwide site, in addition to english.
if we can get german, french and portuguese translations of the main
welcome page, to go with the english and swedish versions already done,
then we could welcome people in many languages, with the main homepage
being only a choice of languages, rather than leading with english as a
default.
is anyone willing to translate the little bit of english text on the
homepage into french, german, spanish, and/or portuguese (as ingrid has
done with swedish)?????
also, are any spanish speakers able to do the "what is openspace" page?
we have now had well over 400 people register, and god knows how many
people visit this site. if you're not already listed in the directory,
it may be worth your while to click on by and enter yourself there.
it's getting to be quite an interesting place.
many thanks, again, michael
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Chicago IL 60610
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mailto:mherman at globalchicago.net
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