Miracles and Nasty Surprises

Miracles and Nasty Surprises (MITPress forthcoming) looks at the role of coherence and emergence in organizations.

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From this perspective, using the same quadrant labels, what was known to the manager is the self and the coherent. Probabilistic meaning is found in groups, whose members do not all share the same meaning.  We don’t have codes that function in a lookup table all the time. There are multiple models and probabilistic meaning notions.  Probabilistic occurrences occur out in the environment; there are always multiple possibilities for future events.  There are multiple affordances that are open to us.  In that quadrant of miracles and nasty surprises, we have emergence. 

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March 2, 2008 at 12:49 pm

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