1. Problematic problems, complex contradictions and muddy messes... Is that your problem?? Draft 2002 Minna Takala
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3. A Hammer and a Nail - problem? "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail."
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5. The perception of problems is faulty at best… ? Denials Unknowables Known unknowns Errors Taboos The Three Wise Monkeys at Nikko shrine, Japan “ See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil “ Tacit / Explicit (Partly applied from Dr. Ann Kervin) … blurred by deceitful sensory receptors, twisted mental models, social values and personal beliefs, ruling paradigms, mixed emotions, wishful expectations etc. Unknown unknowns Unknown knowns
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9. Contradictions / dichotomies? Either /or? Global Closed Service Firm Fast Measures of Failure Active Short term People high-touch Local Open Product Flexible Slow Measures of Success Passive Long term Machine - high tech Public Private
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12. From contradictions to complex messes? Both & and! & Anything goes... Global Closed Private Firm Fast Measures of failure Active Short term People high-touch Local Open Public Flexible Slow Measures of success Passive Long term Machines, high tech Contradictions enhance creativity, innovation and energy, but also tension... Don’t get stuck in the middle ...
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Editor's Notes
In very olden days, a wise and good Monkey King lived on one side of a mountain. A Great Evil was on the other. The King's councillors were three very old, wizened and very wise monkeys. Only they, by tradition, knew about the Great Evil. They also knew that if anyone heard or looked on It, his heart would be hardened forever, and woe would befall the Monkey Kingdom. They were gathering rare wild flowers for the King one day. They peered through some bushes and unwittingly gazed upon the Great Evil, hearing Its awesome shrieks. One covered his eyes, but he could hear. One covered his ears, but he could see. One could both see and hear, but covered his lips and pressed back the dreadful secret deeply within himself. They stole back into the forest knowing their own hearts were spoiled forever. They huddled together on a drooping willow branch. All their wrinkles were shaking. They chattered and whispered dolefully for hours. By nightfall they had decided to follow the counsel of the one who had seen and heard all but would not talk about it and, by emulating him, keep the horrible secret from becoming known, and thereby spare the King and his people a terrible fate. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5814/harc1-10.htm
Pahan tiedon puu…. Aatami ja Eeva Prometheus Faust Frankenstain to doors of perception ???